Back to the first rule: in banking, the laws of supply and demand do not apply.
The first rule is to avoid harming the very miracle that generates so much wealth.
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They called each other by their first names (never "Dad" or "son"), and the first rule was:no hugs.
GDP, the government can borrow quite heavily for some time to finance investment without breaching the first rule.
They will all tell you that the first rule is to stay alive.
The first rule of bureaucracy is never to share information with a rival.
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When you think of yourself as a mini-CEO, you should follow the first rule for a CEO: Walk the floor.
The first rule of city government should be an unwavering commitment to delivering real value to the public with every tax dollar.
The first rule of financial analysis is to separate the two decisions.
The first rule of strategy is to keep your opponent busy attending to your agenda so he has no time to advance his own.
The first rule in dressing for dangerously cold: Layer, layer, layer.
The first rule is that conflicts should be avoided where possible.
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"The first rule of tennis is you've got to play against your opponent and I was playing against myself so it was pretty tough out there, " said Kuznetsova.
The first rule of cool is to not act cool.
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"The first rule of thumb is to fix what you've got, " says Allen Adamson, managing director of the New York office of Landor Associates, a brand consultancy and design firm.
But the first rule of CSR (and of consulting in any other area) is to be true to your own social purpose, and that means only getting in bed with the right partners.
But she will stress that the problems men and boys face are not receiving sufficient attention because - "like the film Fight Club - the first rule of being a man in modern Britain is that you're not allowed to talk about it".
That last comment is yet another confirmation of the first rule for listening to either politicians or Sabbath Gasbags: whenever one of them is about to tell you what "the American people" want or what "the American people" believe, you would be well advised to hit the mute button.
Even though BP is in trouble, most sell-side analysts know the first rule of job preservation is to throw their support behind a beleaguered company in the faint hope that their firm may get a banking mandate if the company is the target of a takeover or is forced to sell itself.
Whatever the first rule of cool, the first rule of funny is that if you try to dissect why a joke is funny in a solicitor's office, not only does funny move on, it doesn't leave a forwarding address and gets a restraining order taken out preventing you from ever contacting it again.
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That decision is the first to rule on this set of facts in the context of the now-ancient Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA).
In the last year, DOT announced the first federal rule to specifically provide ADA protections to people with disabilities who travel on boats and ships.
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They further say their bigger rival applied for the patents before the FAA first proposed the new rule in spring 1998--without revealing its interest to the agency.
Raul Alfonsin's government, the first after military rule, could do that because the junta had collapsed in the wake of defeat in its 1982 Falklands war with Britain.
Granted, 2011 was an exception to the First Five Days rule, after an increase of 1.1% at the start of the year, the stock market recorded flat performance for the year in total.
Raybin, the outside attorney, said the general rule is that the first person to make a deal with the prosecutor is the first to get out of jail.
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