61.   Republicans dismiss any such rules as unacceptable, under pressure from American businesses that fear the same rules may be applied to them in the United States.

62.   The company restated those profits last week, explaining that it had improperly applied accounting rules.

63.   The HMOs oppose provisions that could apply different rules to hospitals and doctors teaming up to compete against HMOs for Medicare patients.

64.   The idea of applying that rule to school disciplinary hearings was not unreasonable, given the need to deter abusive practices by school guards.

65.   The move comes after the Supreme Court ruled last week that such affirmative action rules can be applied only in limited circumstances.

66.   The rules are applied so unevenly that Terry Winters, Donald Baechler, Kiefer, Richter, Polke and Jean-Michel Basquiat get short shrift.

67.   The same rules were applied the next year to companies making money transfers electronically.

68.   The question raised by these recent cases is whether judges are applying these rules in ways that hurt fathers or mothers.

69.   This appears to be the first case in which the publication rule has been applied to a magazine that was initially published electronically.

70.   This week, the FEC is considering how to apply its rules to some aspects of electronic campaigning, but not spam.