1.   The new rules will not affect schools that parents consider satisfactory.

2.   In one indirect way, however, the new rate-of-return rules will affect the soon-to-be-privatised water and electricity industries.

3.   The new rules on sick leave affect employees of all grades, from managers downwards, and all sites -- including the Cowley Works in Oxford.

4.   And she predicted that the new money rules would adversely affect some candidates but not others.

5.   And they argue that the new rule will affect only uninhabited sections of the park, where there are no people to hear noise.

6.   At that point, the rules would affect adult smokers.

7.   But that rule would not affect projects already in progress.

8.   But the rule would also affect anyone receiving grants or contracts, including defense contractors who seek billions of dollars each year for costly weapons systems.

9.   Caught in the middle of this fracas are patients like Mindy Ervin, who said she has no idea how the rules would affect her.