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And then, how can any average user protect themselves from the dread synergy of hard-and-fast policies with zero customer service?

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Lots of us will feel attracted to both sexes during our lives and there are no hard-and-fast rules when it comes to human instinct.

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The target was already pushed back from the original Sunday agenda, and some investors believe the Nov. 3-4 Group of 20 meeting in Cannes, France, is the hard-and-fast deadline.

Assets: All Together Now

For the first time, the agency will have hard-and-fast goals for how long it can take to approve devices on average before they go to market.

Device Makers, FDA Agree on Fees

But there are no hard-and-fast ways for the amateur sportsmen and women among us to replicate these techniques.

Three-minute fix . . . Stitch

That said, I've never been able to enforce this rule in a hard-and-fast way, as I'd like to.

Ilana Garon: End of the Term Pile-Up

There are few hard-and-fast answers but most sides seem to agree that, at the very least, beer cocktails are an interesting and worthwhile experiment in the human palate's recognition of beer.

Hanna Laney: Beer Cocktails: Bastardization Or Exaltation?

The revised plan eliminated hard-and-fast emissions limits for dioxins, which are suspected of causing cancer.

EPA Eases Boiler Emissions Rule

Mr. Bernanke added that while he couldn't make a hard-and-fast determination, he believes that "there is good reason to be concerned about it."

Regulators Testify Against Debit-Fee Rule

Corporations are likely to react with relief at escaping hard-and-fast quotas.

Review threatens companies with public disclosure over number of women interviewed for board roles