1.   Although the new university guidelines are not binding on City College until next year, college officials have been trying to improve the caliber of their student body anyway.

2.   But Professor Bob Tuttle of the George Washington University Law School said the situation is far from clear and that Starr may not be bound by those guidelines.

3.   However, because guidelines are not binding, they are often disregarded, the Democratic legislators said.

4.   However, the Most Rev. James Mahoney, former auxiliary bishop of New York, said the guidelines were immediately binding in all U.S. dioceses.

5.   The guidelines are not binding, but they can influence state regulations governing what procedures hospitals can perform.

6.   The negotiating guidelines are not binding on either Labor or Likud.

7.   The New Yorker proved that readers responded when writers were not bound by editorial guidelines, besides the need to get facts right and to write well.