These rules spread distortions widely throughout the economy, costing billions of dollars.
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Under the law, small businesses' health plans would have to cover a range of required benefits and face pricing rules that spread the risk of costly medical bills.
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Deadly fires are common in Russia because of wide-spread violations of fire safety rules.
Without Glass-Steagall quarantining traditional banking, the government incentives and rules were expanded and spread to the entire financial system.
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This means that according to the uncertainty principle that rules atoms, they are spread out and overlap.
Some Americans insist on keeping a foreign broker to retain 200:1 leverage and spread betting, rather than succumb to CFTC rules capping leverage at 50:1 on majors and 20:1 on minors plus FIFO.
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But carriers that are burdened with heavy rules won't invest at the high level needed to spread high-speed broadband everywhere it needs to go.
Recent changes in accounting rules will amplify this, because it has become harder for banks to spread the building of reserves over the cycle.
The new rules on stock quotations get at the ability of investors to get in the middle of the spread between the bid and ask prices quoted by market- makers.
But this is now drying up, because new rules imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission have shrunk the profits that market makers earn on the spread between buy and sell prices.
Prompted by the spread of the agent.btz worm, last month the Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration issued rules prohibiting the use of removable media devices like USB sticks.
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