He said that meant people no longer necessarily worked a strict five-day, Monday to Friday week, and they no longer saved all their socialising for the weekend - affecting the days people might take off as "sick leave".

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The opposition would split Category Two loans into five sub-categories with strict provisioning levels for each.

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Little League Baseball imposed strict per-game pitch limits five years ago, but Andrews said he performed about seven times the number of arm operations on young pitchers that he did 15 years ago.

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If a flight is cancelled, or delayed for more than five hours, in Europe, there are strict European rules in place, which mean that the airline is obliged to provide assistance at the airport.

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For this to happen, the strict rules regulating domestic firms would need to be relaxed, perhaps over five years.

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These men, five of them with a military or security background, are meant to keep a strict eye on the governors, especially when they have imposed local laws that differ from federal ones.

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Strict bidding rules prohibit bidding cities from criticising each other, and the IOC indicated that bringing the five bid leaders together in the same room for the discussion in Turin would be unacceptable.

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