So 10 days ago, the ATP, which governs the rules and conducts 63 tournaments on the men's tour, mandated that players and their entourages notify tennis officials within 48 hours about any information regarding gambling or match fixing.
Headlined by Richie Hawtin, the CNTRL tour's mandate was to not only bring the sounds of techno to a younger North American audience, but to educate producers on the trials and tribulations (or successes) of both the local and international techno artists touring today.
Meanwhile, sources from the Romney campaign report that their candidate is in negotiations to launch a similar "Never Say Never to the Individual Mandate" tour with Justin Bieber.
Large ships take careful precautions "to stay well clear of uncharted waters and are very cognizant of ice around the ship," said Steve Wellmeier, executive director of the Antarctica tour operators organization, which mandates that members like Holland America Line and Princess Cruises, with ships that carry more than 500 passengers to Antarctica, do not let passengers debark there.
The two rulings, both based on the Americans With Disabilities Act, have left golf's most powerful organizations, the PGA Tour and the U.S.G.A., with opposing mandates on the rights of disabled competitors.
And in January, the Winter Dew Tour, a three-stop skiing and snowboarding series, mandated helmets midseason after a devastating fall involving Pearce, 22, of Vermont.
He was entranced during a tour of Flashpoint and delighted when he got a camera and a mandate to "go out and do something" on his first day of cinematography.
Showing a visitor around New York in September, I had a marvelous docent on a tour of this partly restored tenement and learned that the law at one time mandated a window in every room.
"They need to tour, tour, tour, tour.
Or Tim Finchem, the PGA Tour commissioner, who has to justify why the tour continues to recognize the Masters as an official event despite its mandate that its tournaments take place at clubs with nondiscriminatory membership practices.
