The web of rules is getting tighter around financial executives.
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The "partnership" that Gates wants to alter operates within a dense, tight web of rules, laws, contracts, bureaucratic structures, habits, licensure requirements, training regimens, HR systems and a hundred other factors best described as policy and structure.
In this new web, the rules for marketers have fundamentally changed.
In Britain and other countries where news broadcasters are required to be impartial, at least in theory, the convergence of television and the web makes such rules seem outdated.
But the structure of the industry and the way it operates have largely been dictated by a web of government rules more appropriate to the 16th century than the 21st.
The IRS cares deeply about the web of these reporting rules.
The EU enlargement process is aimed at integrating new members into the web of EU standards, rules and subsidies, not at transforming its political rulers, says Ms Mungiu-Pippidi.
As the head of Google's antiwebspam team, he's rewriting the complex set of rules for ranking Web pages based on their relevance to a given query, which is the company's DNA, its single most important product and a trade secret more closely guarded than the recipe for Coke.
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Tao, a math celebrity of sorts, has a page-long list of rules on his faculty Web site prescribing how he likes to be contacted.
This web of well-intended federal rules predictably slows down the process of recovery as local officials seek a way to bend the general rules to meet their unique circumstances on the ground.
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The project is centered on building the software technology to allow end-users and web sites to define the business rules and negotiate the terms of how they would be willing to interact with each other.
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She had taught at the company's teaching centers for years, but then one day, she was notified that she would have to take down her Web site and comply with their rules against female pastors or be dropped as a teacher.
An e-commerce directive which is in the process of being transposed into the national statutes of the 15 EU countries says that a Web site should be able to sell its goods and services according to one set of rules -- those of the country where the Web site is based.
America has struggled to use multilateral trading rules to cut through the web between government and business in Japan.
Abandoning all the rules of editorial integrity, Web sites readily mix stories with advertising, publish unsubstantiated rumors and sell out to every underwriter with a buck.
Michael Dell and others strode in with their Web direct-sales model and changed the rules.
Google itself previously expressed general support for rules prohibiting discrimination among forms of Web traffic.
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Specifically, mobile computing is changing the Web in a big way and the old rules are changing.
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The regulatory clash over Web privacy in the early 2000s established ground rules that today are being tested.
Only after that can the exchange formally adopt the rules, publish them on their Web site and begin operations.
While entertainment journos might respect those rules of engagement, the World Wide Web is less tame.
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As the Web extends its reach, it bumps up against rules and regulations that vary from country to country.
Most operate within a web of risk limits, documentation requirements and other rules that make it easy to turn a bad bet into a criminal matter.
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Some fear the new rules could end up silencing first-person web journals published from combat zones.
The WTO is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations, according to its Web site.
As in the Safe Harbour agreement, web firms could seek a certification that they follow certain minimum rules of consumer protection and privacy.
Open Harbor, in San Carlos, California, wants to be global trade's equivalent of a radar detector, replacing with a fast Web service the practice of thumbing through thick tomes of trade rules and restrictions.
When legitimate web sites are compromised with scripts launching fake AV dialogues, these rules do not apply.
There was, for example, "Slider House Rules, " a mock-up where a single Web page represented a year of a user's life that could be flipped through by a sliding motion.
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