In addition, parent-friendly features include parental PIN options to restrict mature content and a purchase PIN requirement for authorization of any rental and purchases of on-demand content through the application.

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Perhaps more significant is the requirement to purchase prepaid SIMs for border crossings -- a process so expensive and convoluted that this limitation seriously diminishes the convenience factor for frequent travelers.

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Many believed that this would be inevitable because the penalties in the ACA are too low to effectively compel the performance of those who would be willing to violate the legal requirement to purchase insurance.

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Voters in Florida rejected by a slim margin a proposal to amend the state's constitution to try to block the federal health law's requirement that people purchase insurance or pay a penalty.

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For the first time since passage of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, polling reveals that more Americans support the requirement that all Americans purchase health insurance than those who oppose the measure.

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Fifty-year-old Basuki Rachmad, a furniture maker from Banjarmasin, complains he cannot get a permit to obtain his raw materials since a legal license to buy wood is only granted to businesses that purchase over 100 cubic meters a month, three times his requirement.

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However, at the lower end of the market the main impediment to buying a home is not the level of interest rates but the requirement to pay a deposit, typically 20% of the purchase price.

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