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  2. Filibuster in the United States Senate - Wikipedia

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    Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the United States Senate allows the Senate to vote to limit debate by invoking cloture on the pending question. In most cases, however, this requires a majority of three-fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn (60 votes if there is no more than one vacancy), [ 3 ] : 15–17 so a minority of senators can ...

  3. Negotiated rulemaking - Wikipedia

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    Neg Regs are facilitated by a public policy mediator. Once established under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the committee prepares a set of ground rules, which include the committee's deadline, mission, responsibilities, commitments, and a decision rule or definition of consensus. A final list of the issues to be negotiated is also created ...

  4. Chatham House Rule - Wikipedia

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    The rule was created in 1927 and refined in 1992. Since its most recent refinement in 2002, the rule states: [1] When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.

  5. 16-inch softball - Wikipedia

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    16-inch softball (sometimes called clincher, mushball, [1] cabbageball, [2] [3] puffball, blooperball, smushball, [4] and Chicago ball [5] [6]) is a variant of softball, but using a larger ball that gradually becomes softer the more the ball is hit, and played with no gloves or mitts on the fielders.

  6. Augustine's laws - Wikipedia

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    Augustine's laws were a series of tongue in cheek aphorisms put forth by Norman Ralph Augustine, an American aerospace businessman who served as Under Secretary of the Army from 1975 to 1977.

  7. Bates v. State Bar of Arizona - Wikipedia

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    Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, 433 U.S. 350 (1977), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the right of lawyers to advertise their services. [1] In holding that lawyer advertising was commercial speech entitled to protection under the First Amendment (incorporated against the States through the Fourteenth Amendment), the Court upset the tradition against advertising ...

  8. Plaschke: I was wrong: These Lakers can win an NBA ... - AOL

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    The clincher began with a stunning Lakers avalanche. James layup. James layup. Russell jumper. Davis layup. Warriors miss. Warriors miss. Warriors miss.

  9. Muphry's law - Wikipedia

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    Stephen J. Dubner described learning of the existence of Muphry's law in the "Freakonomics" section of The New York Times in July 2008. He had accused The Economist of a typo in referring to Cornish pasties being on sale in Mexico, assuming that "pastries" had been intended and being familiar only with the word "pasties" with the meaning of nipple coverings.