The rule, which took effect seven months ago, exempted everyone already working for the airlines from the fingerprint checks.

A "2-in-4" rule limits each university to two exempted preseason tournaments every four years.

The new rule specifically exempts communications to existing clients or other lawyers.

The rule also exempts gelatin, which comes primarily from the hide of pigs and cows.

The rules, they said, would exempt an additional 640,000 executive, administrative and professional workers from qualifying when they work more than 40 hours a week.

The old rules exempted children who had been in an English-speaking classroom for less than two years.

Neither section 802 nor the final rule exempts auditors of foreign issuers' financial statements.

Current rules exempt not only royalty income but investment income as well.

This year a new rule exempted many more such students from taking the test as were required in the past.

The rule would also have exempted projects in which replacement costs were less than 20 percent of the plant's value.