People who say no come from cultures where rules are considered more important than relationships, and people who say yes from cultures where relationships trump rules.

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A:Yes, but there are rules, according to the Social Security Administration.

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And yes, those deadlines and rules are important.

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Yes, they broke the rules.

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And yes, there are a few more rules.

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And yes, the Sun is committed to tougher rules that safeguard the public.

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Or is it the position that, yes, their hands are tied by accounting rules and they had to take these write-downs immediately?

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Yes, we have to do our part, but why do the rules keep changing every time we do?

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He voted yes to strip the Consumer Financial Protect Agency of some of its toughest rules, instead wanting to soften it up (it failed).

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William Ury, co-founder of Harvard's Program on Negotiation and co-author of "Getting to Yes, " told me that since families are no longer top-down, new rules have to be brokered all the time.

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But until the American people see that happening, yes, they are going to continue to express frustrations about what they see as two sets of rules.

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Yes, this is a bit of a simplification, as each state has its own set of delegate rules that apportion delegates based on performance in congressional districts as well as the state overall.

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And yes, yes, yes, I know that attorneys, CPAs, enrolled agents, or enrolled actuaries have other, more stringent rules already in place.

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During the question-and-answer session following his prepared remarks to the International Monetary Conference in Atlanta, Ben Bernanke was asked by Jamie Dimon (yes, that Jamie Dimon) about whether the central bank and other regulators have considered how the litany of rules being drawn up as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill interact with each other.

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