21.   The basic ground rules that determine whether a new settlement concept does as I would put it get into the starting gate.

22.   However, clearly established ground rules have not been put into place and many kitchens rely on open windows and doors, or merely the tolerance of staff.

23.   Always establish good ground rules at the beginning of each session.

24.   Perhaps the most important ground rules to establish are those about silence and stopping work.

25.   In the absence of any such prescribed ground rules, invocation of the power of expulsion on this ground is likely to be highly contentious.

26.   Now one of the reasons a lot of delegations go wrong, is because we think we have agreed ground rules with people.

27.   Although MCI now is fighting Pac Bell in the local market, the carrier is pragmatic and practical enough to change its tune under the new ground rules.

28.   Although the Supreme Court has decided many cases growing out of encounters between police officers and bus passengers, the constitutional ground rules for these tense interactions remain unclear.

29.   And leaders in both countries are concerned about whether they will be able to meet budget-cutting targets required under the ground rules of European economic union.

30.   And Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who limited the witness lists in the interest of speeding the trial along, has indicated that his ground rules are flexible.