Following the rules of a pool is key: no running, no horseplay, no diving into shallow water.

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Following the rules of a pool is also key: no running, no horseplay, no diving into shallow water.

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If you make the jump from soccer mom to official paid chauffeur, meaning you operate a car pool in order to make a profit, the rules are different.

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Williams misses Wales' remaining autumn Tests against Fiji on Friday and New Zealand the following Saturday, and also rules him out of the Ospreys' Heineken Cup pool games against Munster, twice, London Irish and Toulon.

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In fact, when the pool is that big, the best chance of winning is to throw the rules of probability out the window and just hope your crazy picks pan out.

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While there are no hard and fast rules, option pools for early stage companies with high-growth potential often provide for a pool of option shares that would represent between 15%-20% of the total outstanding shares of the company.

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Though we might use this endless stretch of time to refill the chip bowl or retally our pool ballots, these categories deserve special attention because they shine a spotlight on Oscar s strangest and most controversial rules.

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That rules out traditional insurance, so Islamic banks have instead developed takaful, in which a group of people pool risk.

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