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“Listen, this stays between us, you hear? This is why I sent for you—for your discretion. No one, not even the Council of the Earth, is to know about their presence on this ship.”

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The change doesn’t necessarily mean the membership requirement is going away, but clarifies that “requiring association membership is a matter of local discretion,” according to a document outlining the recommendations.

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I want every game to have a clock that can be stopped for injuries, VAR and excessive time-wasting - at the discretion of the referee.

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The agreement will slash the average fee charged to merchants by 10 basis points for five years, cap rates for standard cards at 1.25%, and give merchants more discretion over which cards to accept.

However, the board does have "discretion" to decide when some of them have been met, she adds.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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