• If participants later violate their own rules, point it out and ask if they want to keep or revise the rule.

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  • "The general rule is you keep people on the platform they're used to, " Parcher said.

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  • Hopewell has also gotten flak for breaking the cardinal rule of mega-projects: Keep the costs off your own books.

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  • He is following a simple rule: Keep the angle of the falling ball constant in your vision and adjust your running speed accordingly.

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  • If the rate was lowered to keep the bank afloat, and regulators were involved, both the bankers and their rule-setters should explain why they took it upon themselves to endanger the City's reputation in this way.

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  • "Old case law is fairly narrow about treating something as substantially identical, but the problem for the adviser and the investor is that the IRS may take more aggressive positions, " says Stevie Conlon, tax director for Gainskeeper.com, which provides software to advisers that helps them keep clients in line with the wash sale rule.

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  • As you suspect, the general rule is that you cannot keep out anyone who needs such an animal, even in a no-pets building.

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  • The first rule of strategy is to keep your opponent busy attending to your agenda so he has no time to advance his own.

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  • Lord Woolf's ruling was driven by his desire to keep the boys out of a young offenders' institution where the conditions were "so corrosive" as to rule out any hopes of a successful rehabilitation.

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  • One rule of negotiating that I always keep at the forefront: never underestimate the power of ego and insecurity.

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  • Highly populated places can prosper when people are free to start businesses, keep most of what they earn and are protected by the Rule of Law, especially pertaining to property rights and individual equality.

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  • Highly populated places can prosper when people are free to start businesses, keep most of what they earn and are protected by the Rule of Law, especially pertaining to property rights and individual equality before the law.

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  • As The Economist went to press, it looked likely that a diluted version of the Volcker rule would pass, allowing banks to keep running hedge-fund and private-equity units for clients who want to invest in them, and perhaps to keep putting a small share of their own capital in them as well.

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  • C. didn't object to the Merc's interpretation of the rule, intended to prevent market manipulation, not keep out competition.

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  • But Suharto and many soldiers think that strong rule with a large military component is essential to keep the country together, as well as to contain local animosities.

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  • Typically the rule of the sea is that the finders get to keep 80 percent of the treasure.

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  • With respect to retention, the rule used to be that a tax preparer had to keep the checklist for 3 years after the June 30th following the date on the return.

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  • Kennedy International Airport has prompted JetBlue Airways and Delta Air Lines to ask for a temporary exemption at JFK to a rule designed to keep planeloads of passengers from getting stranded on the tarmac.

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  • Then keep this clunky rule in mind: Once a conversion is undone, the same assets (or lump of money) cannot be converted again until the year following the original conversion or more than 30 days after the conversion was undone, whichever is later.

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  • They even considered passing a rule change to allow DeLay to keep his leadership post if indicted by the Travis County grand jury (dropping that plan only after public outcry).

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  • The outcome, eventually, was a rule by which a company can keep a special-purpose vehicle off its balance sheet as long as an independent third party owns a controlling equity interest equivalent to at least 3% of the fair value of its assets.

    ECONOMIST: Company accounts

  • JetBlue Airways Corp. had six diverted planes on the ground, and jetBlue officials said all its captains were acutely aware of the tarmac-delay rule, which threatens heavy fines on airlines if they keep passengers on board grounded domestic flights for more than three hours (four hours for international) without offering a chance to deplane, with certain exceptions.

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  • The Clyde shipyards are protected from foreign competition by a European rule that lets countries keep military hardware in their own countries.

    BBC: Shipyards on the slipway

  • That means you must be single, divorced, or otherwise unmarried at the end of the tax year and (1) you paid more than 50% to keep a home for the entire tax year for a parent who was a dependent OR (2) you paid more than 50% to keep a home for the entire tax year with your dependent (there are some exceptions to this rule).

    FORBES: Eleven Tax Myths Debunked

  • City have taken up their option to keep Sean Newton, Glenn Rule, Shaun Kelly, Paul Rutherford, Chris Holroyd and Paul McManus at the Deva Stadium.

    BBC: New deals for six Chester rookies

  • In the past Mr Ecclestone has handled the teams brilliantly, using divide-and-rule tactics to prevent any serious rebellion and to keep a large share of revenues for his firm.

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  • Single parents who keep spare rooms so they can have access rights to their children at weekends could fall foul of the under-occupancy rule he said.

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