• The book instead serves as a primer on how to ensure a company doesn't turn into a mind-numbing bureaucracy that smothers existing employees and scares off rule-bending innovators such as Jobs.

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  • Mr Mitarai told The Economist recently that he has a rough cut-off rule for allocating investment: anything for which labour comprises more than 5% of production costs can be done in China or some other low-wage country.

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  • Romantically minded historians say they were a freespirited people, eager to shake off feudal rule, but they could simply have been producing too many babies for the upper Valais to support.

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  • Assuming that professors teach because doing so and being affiliated with the college is reflection of their preferences, not being able to do so because of a minimum wage rule entails these persons being made worse off than in the absence of the rule.

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  • In particular he's trying to fight off the "Volcker rule", named after Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve.

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  • This rule knocked off Google, which went public in August 2004.

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  • Ankiel was credited with a ground-rule double leading off the seventh on a ball down the third-base line that appeared to glance off an usher's leg before hitting a railing.

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  • It's a broad genre, but as a general rule, they give off a summery vibe with flavored syrups, fruit juices and, of course, rum.

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  • Ferrari have started the season with an updated version of last year's car but the move has backfired this season as rule changes in the off-season have left their virtually unbeatable 2004 model well off the pace.

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  • The FAA should get off its bureaucratic butt and change the rule, pronto.

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  • And I will inform the court that the wording of this definition is patterned after Federal Rule of Evidence 413 (OFF-MIKE).

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  • Sri Lanka has been under emergency rule on-and-off for nearly three decades, most recently since the assassination in August 2005 of Lakshman Kadirgamar, an ethnic-Tamil foreign minister.

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  • Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the seemingly untouchable media magnate who has brushed off countless scandals and challenges to his rule, appears to have made his final stand.

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  • Former U.N. weapons inspector Kelly -- one of the world's foremost experts on bioterrorism -- found himself at the center of the biggest political crisis for Blair's government in its six-year rule after he gave an off-the-record briefing to the BBC in May.

    CNN: Blair to face Kelly death inquiry

  • Aaj and other stations were yanked off the air when President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule last year.

    CNN: Fear grips Pakistan as election approaches

  • Rather than adopting broad-brush regulations that place ISP practices that may benefit consumers off limits, the FCC could adopt a simple rule prohibiting ISPs from engaging in practices that constitute an abuse of significant and non-transitory market power that harm consumers.

    FORBES

  • Morgan Chase spokesman argues the new rule would cover only a fraction of the off-balance-sheet liabilities and therefore isn't a problem.

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  • In 2011, city officials tried unsuccessfully to convince the state to change a "last-in-first-out" rule that dictates newer teachers must be laid off before those with more time on the job.

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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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  • As I've said repeatedly: those who came off Gold first recovered first - but the exception proves the rule of why.

    BBC: Thinking outside the 1930s box

  • Bush had praised them but now faces the possibility that their federalist, hands-off-the-states philosophy makes them less likely to rule in his favor.

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  • When you think about it, there's really only one rule for Thanksgiving touch football: Take your shoes off before going in the house, or Mom is going to kill you.

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  • That stubbornness may rule out the obvious remedy: calling the whole farce off before someone is badly hurt.

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  • Mr Bradbourn said the one-bag rule was harmful to regional airports as it put passengers off from buying goods at duty-free shops.

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  • As we went to press, the supreme court was due to rule on whether to exclude Mr Shafiq from the run-off because of his role in the old regime.

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  • It's probably hard to plan a year off if your wits have been dulled by the Uniform Commercial Code and the Rule Against Perpetuities.

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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.

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  • Once, when he saw a new building that he thought the community had erected for itself, in disregard of the rule of poverty, he climbed up to the roof and began prying off the tiles and throwing them to the ground.

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  • Bellamy was one of the top performers of last season's Premier League and scored his 18th Wales goal in their 5-1 friendly win over Luxembourg last week after admitting he "certainly wouldn't rule out" a move to last season's Championship play-off finalists.

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