Now the challenge is to avoid the welter of grandiloquence and rule-bending that undermined so many previous schemes.

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The central bank plainly fears that Vodafone could set a troublesome rule-bending precedent.

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We all know how that ended up: a number of (dishonourable) members behind bars and many more obliged to admit they had profited from rule-bending and breaking.

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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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This has already been inscribed in White House lore as a magnificent victory, snatched in the spring of this year from the mouth of defeat by a combination of presidential fortitude and congressional ingenuity (or stubbornness and rule-bending, as Republicans see it).

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