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The power of a private army will, for the first time, be exercised through out institutions."
In this project, an option for a second unit was available (and was exercised), and air preheaters were replaced.
Back to that LAT lead about health plan problems: One Californian who probably doesn't have these difficulties is Disney poohbah Michael Eisner, who, says the LAT in a nearby front-pager, yesterday had the single biggest executive payday in history when he exercised stock options bringing in $565 million.
Non-overlapping endpoints Although the benefits associated with each individual health endpoint may be analyzed separately, care must be exercised in selecting health endpoints to include in the overall benefits analysis because of the possibility of double counting of benefits.
But again, the writers were free to write what they wanted, so why is the staff there so exercised (which they became only after the WSJ and NYT started knocking their conduct)?