• We carved out some exceptions to the rule, such as for people who are fearful of outliving their assets and people (like college professors) who are eligible to buy TIAA-CREF's economical products.

    FORBES: Follow-Through

  • In December, 2011, just months after the formation of Opportunity Works, Inc. a full service staffing company focused on recruiting people with disabilities, the U.S. DOL Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a proposed rule to improve job opportunities for people with disabilities.

    FORBES: A Rule That Could Make A Difference

  • Malawi does not, as a rule, approve adoptions for single or divorced people, but the official at the country's welfare department said that each case was considered on merit.

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  • According to Mr Mogra, these include - respect for other people and the rule of law, freedom of expression and religious practice, participation in the democratic system and valuing education.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | What does it mean to be British?

  • What may unnerve ministers most is that Tesco has come out against the government's welfare rule which states that benefits can be cut for people whose work experience placements do not proceed well.

    BBC: Pooper store?

  • We should all feel entitled to live in a nation based on fairness, rule of law, and run by and for the people.

    FORBES: Wall Street Has Been Entitled, NOT Occupy Wall Street

  • Weston was cleared in 1996 but the case was reopened in 2005 when the "double jeopardy" rule was removed, which stopped people being arrested for the same crime twice.

    BBC: Police team commended after Oxfordshire murder retrial

  • Democratic leaders are dependent for their rule on the will of a free people and as such have a vested interest in promoting the peace and prosperity that all free societies desire.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: What Undid the Middle East 'Peace Process'

  • The league's decades-old strategy for encouraging people to attend games, the blackout rule, has become counterproductive in some respects.

    WSJ: Game Changer: NFL Scrambles to Sell More Tickets

  • Tax havens also play a very valuable moral role by providing high-quality rule of law in an uncertain world, offering a financial refuge for people who live in nations where governments are incompetent and corrupt.

    FORBES: All the News that's Fit to Print about Tax Havens

  • So people on CESA for 12 months or more when the rule comes into force will have their benefit cut immediately.

    BBC: Terminally ill people warned over possible benefit cut

  • In June, Southwest Airlines (nyse: LUV - news - people ) began enforcing a longstanding rule of charging extra-large passengers for two seats.

    FORBES: Why Airlines Can't Cut The Fat

  • Democracy literally means 'rule by the people' - in practice not by the whole people (for unanimity is rare) but by a majority of the people.

    BBC: Unit 1: People and Politics

  • Four months after we incorporated the U.S. Department of Labor proposed a rule for federal contractors to set a hiring goal of having seven percent of their workforces be people with disabilities.

    FORBES: Trends In Employing People With Disabilities

  • Many people follow the rule of thumb to save at least ten percent of their income for retirement and another ten percent for other goals, such as an emergency fund.

    FORBES: The Three Most Important Financial Numbers You Need to Know

  • The Court is an extraordinary institution in the work it does and in the work it can do for the American people by advancing the tenets of our Constitution, by upholding the rule of law, and by enabling all Americans, regardless of their background or their beliefs, to get a fair hearing and an equal chance at justice.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Nominates Elena Kagan for Supreme Court

  • Although it's tempting to execute payback, it's better to lay down the rule for the benefit of the next Republican president: Presidents are entitled to staff their administrations with the people they want.

    CNN: Vote no and send a message to Hagel

  • The declaration calls for the rule of law to be restored in Meiktila, the rapid return home of thousands of displaced people and seminars and workshops on how to prevent further communal violence in the country.

    BBC: Burma communal rioting spreads outside Meiktila

  • South Africa faces major problems, but having held four successful national elections as well as local polls since the end of white rule, a democratic culture appears to be taking hold, allowing people at least some say in the search for solutions.

    BBC: South Africa profile

  • Today, in upholding the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court has shown that, even at a time when Washington seems to have reached a new level of dysfunction, there remains a respect for the rule of law, for precedent, and for the ability of Congress to legislate on matters that affect the American people.

    FORBES: The Power of Framing: ObamaCare Individual Mandate Upheld as a Tax

  • Just as they would impose a default rule requiring people to save money, while permitting them to "opt out, " employers could do the same for lunch.

    BBC: Should lunch breaks be mandatory?

  • British politicians, for instance, sometimes talk about scrapping their country's rule on resident non-domiciles because it allows wealthy people domiciled abroad, often in tax havens, to live in Britain tax-free.

    ECONOMIST: The less obvious uses of tax havens

  • The last time Libya held an election was almost half a century ago and, for many people, the act of casting a ballot was novel after 42 years of Gadhafi's rule.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • 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.

    BBC: Hiking the Alpine Walserweg trail

  • Reduced to their essence, the endangered order can be defined as a government of, by and for all the people, one rooted in the principle that power must be exercised, pursuant to the rule of law, in representative and accountable ways.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: ��Here, the people rule��

  • By the day, the evidence mounts for taking action to change the black-out rule: ticket sales across the NFL have been decreasing for the past two seasons and there is an increasing number of people staying home to watch games two conditions that were thus in effect before the economy hit its turbulent patch.

    FORBES: Time to Abandon The Blackout Rule, Pro Football's Sacred Cow

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