The process rarely takes longer than nine months, and Oakland's planning code has just four definitions of restaurants, compared with San Francisco's 13.

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We tend to lose track of companies that no longer exist and we rarely have any inkling of all those planned businesses that might have come into existence had business conditions, such as tax burdens, been better.

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He appears regularly at law schools around the South, as well as in states covered by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, mostly in the northern Midwest. (Each Justice represents one or two Circuits, and Thomas long supervised the Eighth, though he no longer does.) Thomas rarely uses a prepared text, and often simply takes questions from students for an hour or more.

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Remember that interest rates rarely shift up in a parallel fashion, so the yield curve will probably flatten, with longer-maturity yields rising by less than one point.

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While it rarely prevents the FTC from getting the data or sorting out the issues, the process can take longer than the eight months it took the FTC to review and approve this deal.

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