Although competition is now the rule in telecoms, phone numbers themselves are still highly regulated.

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Erichson said the court will be forced to decide the circumstances under which courts can use class actions formed under a rule designed to allow large numbers of plaintiffs to obtain injunctive relief, or court-ordered changes in the way an organization operates.

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To have a shot in Georgia--where Democrats run up big numbers in Atlanta and Republicans rule the suburbs--Gore must carry swing areas such as the 8th District.

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In particular, they will have to recognise that many of their countrymen, however gullibly, were complicit in Mr Milosevic's rule, if only by voting for him in vast numbers in elections.

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The government should rule out using peak-time train fare rises to manage passenger numbers, MPs have said.

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"These are the lowest head coach diversity numbers the league has seen since 2003, when the Rooney Rule was just implemented, " wrote Harry Carson, the Fritz Pollard Alliance's executive director, in a letter to NFL officials regarding the drop from six to four black head coaches in the league after this past regular season.

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Since it is virtually certain that full disclosure of sources and amounts of their conflicting revenues will be required either as a result of growing client sophistication or SEC rule in the near future, firms today are implementing strategic changes intended to blunt criticism once the numbers come out.

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The conventional wisdom is now that the numbers probably line up to the Pareto Principle, more commonly know as the 80-20 rule where 80% of the content in any social network is created by only 20% of the users.

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