So if Scotland were to become independent, all other things being equal (the ghastly weasel words again), they might either refuse to lend to RBS or charge prohibitively expensive interest rates for doing so.

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Often this involves concealing information that would cause potential transacting partners to refuse to transact with them or to demand better terms as a condition of doing so.

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You are supposed to dispose of refuse and apparently you are doing nothing.

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Doing so, they argue, would in turn prompt Russia to refuse to ratify the START II Treaty and to withdraw from the earlier START I accord.

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The railroad and telecom tycoon has confided to at least one associate that this is his way of doing something to stem the tide of what he sees as violence-and sex-soaked refuse spilling out of Hollywood.

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