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(in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by a bank for the purchase of listed securities.

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Director Yoo Dong-hun and screenwriter Lee Jung-u were arrested for firebombing theaters.
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In other words, unnecessarily stringent abortion regulation could be far more dangerous than abortion itself.
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Following this supposed U-turn on his political beliefs, Darakhshan went back to Iran in October 2008.
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Others fear that giving them the force of regulation could be more harmful because they would become outdated quickly.
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Gun regulation, of course, was not the only successful initiative, not by a long shot.
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U was an Usurer, a miserable elf; V was a Vintner, who drank all himself.
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His presence, also, always graced Walls End Castle at the regulation periods.
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The regulation chairs and tables of the furnished house had been banished from Mrs. Haggard's drawing-room.
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Well, we must try our luck with a regulation sabre; they can't well refuse it; ours is the stronger and bigger man.
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His smooth brow wrinkled and his mouth tightened to a thin straight line beneath the fair "regulation" moustache.
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