It is designed to make sure that everybody follows the same set of rules, so that firms compete on price and quality, not on tricks and not on traps.
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The time has come for a concrete pro-energy agenda based on market incentives, not rhetorical tricks.
"If confidence is falling and interest rates have already been cut to 40-year lows, there are not many tricks left in the bag, " he says.
The Consumer Bureau's goal across consumer markets is to give people the confidence and peace of mind that the financial world is not full of tricks and traps that will ruin their lives.
Many tricks worked in the past, but as Google tries to continuously improve the quality of search results, many tricks do not work anymore.
Premium ice-cream brands are not averse to "tricks" to get consumers to pay more, like the US firm Haagen Dazs did when it started out in 1961, Ronnie Ballantyne says.
The cowbirds' dastardly tricks do not stop at this protection racket, either, for a fifth of those warbler nests that had never had cowbird eggs in them also got destroyed.
This tricks people into not realizing just how different they are.
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It is almost Halloween and with that come ghosts, goblins and tricks proving things may not always be what they seem.
This replication of a human failing (seeing what is expected is the basis of many conjuring tricks) is probably not an accident.
Paterno promoted a "Grand Experiment" of doing it the correct way, of not falling prey to the cheap tricks and classroom shortcuts, and building a winning program of integrity.
The government is also proposing to strengthen banks by buying preference shares and subordinated debt and by approving some new accounting tricks, such as not deducting unrealised losses on equities from banks' capital.
Other tricks used to win included not running the right number of laps in cross-country races.
We're not told if there are any special tricks besides the size reduction, though: while the new cable end looks dual-sided, there's no guarantee Apple will have eliminated the right-side-up requirement that afflicts just about every mobile-sized port format we've seen to date.
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It's not about flashy starchitect bling, high-tech tricks, minimalist sensory deprivation or narcissistic egos.
The experimental product, called BIRR 4, tricks the viruses responsible for colds into not binding themselves to cells in the nose.
They will avoid like the plague transferring funds between ventures, staffing subsidiaries with incompetent family members, conducting dealings that are not transparent to the outside, and other old tricks.
Until now, he has used accounting tricks to make sure federal money has not paid for the embryo research, which was funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.
The Cable companies are often , if not always, owned by politically influential people that will resort to dirty tricks to snuff out competition.
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The zipper suddenly finds that the tricks that it has picked up to encode the first language are not much help in encoding the second.
That these anti-novelistic tricks are all, in fact, novelistic tricks, often borrowed from the history of the novel, does not muffle the pleasure of watching this literary freedom in action.
Young animals grow up and Chamber's not old, but you can, we can, teach that old dog new tricks.
Still, people fall for tricks by the droves and some of them have become iconic, if not old and dusty.
The latest cooling tricks, including big copper heat sinks and water-filled pipes, are not keeping up.
Not to be left out from the CES announcements, the DV8000 also has some new tricks: the Windows Media Center Edition operating system is an available option, as is HP's Ultra BrightView display technology, which adds a second lamp over the standard 17-inch BrightView LCD.
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Some FlyerTalk members advocate practices designed not to breeze through a checkpoint, but to specifically expose the TSA's hypocrisy: tricks like carrying frozen shampoo and using the most obscure forms of valid ID.
As tensions rise ahead of the vote next week, Lib Dem leader and deputy PM Nick Clegg also entered the debate, telling The Times that Labour was "learning the tricks of opposition" but "to oppose everything is to offer nothing and the country will not be duped".
Not that it matters all that much, as the Eluga borrows one of Japan's more popular phone tricks by waterproofing the whole device -- provided you keep the micro-USB and micro-SIM covers closed (something the phone will constantly remind you of when you boot it up).
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