Formal, long-term arrangements for a pet can be created with the help of a lawyer in the form of a special will, trust, or other document.

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"New leaf" refers not to the world of plants, but to the formal, even archaic, term for a two-sided piece of paper.

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As the future on the stadium reaches another landmark on Wednesday, when the formal process of finding a long-term tenant starts, the controversial Hammers bid appears to be among the front-runners.

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The contribution of Agile to enhanced management practices for dealing with complexity is a shift towards valuing transparency, obliquity, informality, expertise and getting real-world results for customers through iterative approaches, as compared to the traditional management approaches of command, control, hierarchy, rules, formal plans, reports, predictability, short-term efficiency and a preoccupation with saving or making money.

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Full-time employees: employees are dedicated, formal members of your team and usually work on a longer-term basis than contractors.

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The long-term effect of this - as with Labour in the Seventies - will be a formal Conservative split.

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But the term sanctuary doesn't apply in those cities where there's been no formal declaration but police, on their own initiative, simply refuse to act as surrogate immigration officers.

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