At first chance, get rid of the destructive budget rules that set up the cliff in the first place.

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The first set of teams got the standard brainstorming spiel, including the no-criticism ground rules.

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First, government has set up basic rules of the marketplace--from the enforcement of contracts and managing the money supply to maintaining airline safety standards and creating federal deposit insurance.

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First, they create legal certainty by replacing the current patchwork of laws in Europe with a single set of rules for all 27 European Union countries.

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