Under the so-called 5-3-3-2 rule, applied by both the finance ministry and the health ministry, half the pension-fund investments had to be in assets (such as bonds) where return of the principal was guaranteed, not more than 30% in domestic equities, 30% in foreign securities and 20% in property.
As a top-50 player, Tipsarevic must adhere to the so-called whereabouts rule by making himself available to be tested in an one-hour slot for an out-of-competition test if the drug testers randomly come calling.
More than half the region's 5.3 million people were born after 1991, when a Western-enforced no-fly zone made Kurdish self-rule possible for the first time by shielding the region against Saddam Hussein.
In 1868, samurai from the two remote southern domains of Satsuma and Choshu seized the imperial palace in Kyoto, declared the restoration of the Meiji emperor and brought to a sudden end two-and-a-half centuries of rule by the Tokugawa shogunate.
And let me just say in terms of the Bush tax cuts and taxes in general that the President believes that we should have broader tax reform guided by the -- in part by the so-called Buffett Rule as a principle.
Although its war in Iraq serves their goal of preventing a post-Saddam Iraq from developing into a coherent, multi-ethnic, stable state governed by the rule of law, al-Qaida is not an Iranian (or Syrian) organization.
From time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people.
Even in the West Bank, run by a more liberal Western-backed self-rule government, most public schools separate boys and girls by fourth grade.
Last month, on the Monday after Bear Stearns' collapse, the SEC proposed a new "naked short-selling anti-fraud rule" that is supposed to rein in manipulative trading by preventing short-sellers from misrepresenting to a broker that they have properly located stock to borrow to sell short.
The dozen-odd forces, each loyal to individual commanders and politicians, were the divide-and-rule method by which the late Yasser Arafat, Mr Abbas's predecessor, held on to power.
Both democracies emerged from mid-century authoritarian rule marked by an orgy of judicial and extra-judicial killings.
Anders Hultin of Kunskapsskolan, a chain of 26 Swedish schools founded by a venture capitalist in 1999 and now running at a profit, says its schools only rarely have to invoke the first-come-first-served rule the chain has responded to demand by expanding so fast that parents keen to send their children to its schools usually get a place.
It creates an unfair, jump-the-gun, time-to-market advantage, by ignoring the rule of law standard of securing permission from property owners before use in the marketplace, a business practice that law-abiding competitors must respect.
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Stabilizing the dollar-euro exchange rate can only be achieved within a rule-based monetary regime, not by relying on "independent" central banks and finance ministers to coordinate monetary policy to do it.
We will observe the same procedures as panel one -- 10 minutes witness presentations, followed by questioning by members under the five- minute rule.
Another effect of the creation of a race-based government in Hawaii could be the secession of the islands from the Union, precipitating the loss to the United States of such vital military installations as Pearl Harbor and creating an ominous precedent for self-rule sure to be seized upon by other self-designating communities like the reconquistas and Islamists amongst us.
And three-year Bachelors degrees followed by two-year Masters are now the general rule, with few exceptions.
Instead, play by the rule--your business acumen--that first allowed you to generate the wealth that you are now deploying in the stock market.
Decades of divide-and-rule tactics by the central government, which long denied basic citizenship to hundreds of thousands of Kurds, have exacerbated tribal, linguistic and religious divisions.
Throughout this crisis I don't recall that Cox--who got rid of the uptick rule on short-selling in 2007 and then sat idly by as gangs of naked short-sellers destroyed cash-flow-positive banks--has had a word to say.
Probably of more lasting importance is the latest bout of rule-changing by the authorities.
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Issuers must comply with the two-network rule by April 1st of next year.
The promised communist nirvana brought a mixture of mass murder, lies and latterly the grey reality of self-interested rule by authoritarian bureaucrats.
Card networks must comply with the two-network rule by October 1st.
Brahimi said many Iraqis suggested a national convention be held to help the nation come together after years of war and decades of iron-fist rule by Saddam Hussein.
If it were to try to do so, holders of dollars could over-rule the Fed by turning in the extra dollars for gold, forcing the Fed to reverse its policies.
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To prevent a repeat of the credit crunch and market breakdowns we have witnessed over the past two years, extensive rule-making by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, among others, will be necessary.
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The gainful-employment rule has been the focus of sustained attack by the for-profit colleges.
Since the new Europe-wide rule to strengthen banks is that they must - by the middle of 2012 - have a minimum of 9% capital on a Basel 2.5 basis relative to their risk-weighted assets, after allowing for the fall in the price of their holdings of the debts of over-indebted eurozone countries, by definition it is the banks in those over-indebted eurozone countries that emerge as weakest.
It might then consider adopting another quite modest proposal, recently advanced by Ira Millstein, a leading lawyer and corporate-governance reformer, and a rule long observed in more shareholder-friendly places such as Britain: if, by withholding support, shareholders cast more votes against a candidate than in favour, he should not be elected to the board.
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