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Organizations that provide free or "pro bono" services are able to maintain a better lawyer-to-client ratio because they often specialize in particular kinds of cases, Hall said.
Conventional microeconomic analysis depends on the presumed ability of governments to maintain more or less full employment.
They say the new U.S. policy is to contain and deter Iraq's weapons programs (possibly through periodic military strikes), maintain economic sanctions, and foster Iraqi opposition groups in the hope of deposing Saddam Hussein.
On the other hand, a wino with an empty paper bag on a ramble to maintain his muscat level—now that has a touch of poetry.
But O'Brien, who has always been opposed to making deals with Sinn Fein, noted that there was now less open emphasis in Ireland on peace than on a breakthrough for Irish nationalism, and he added that an article in the Sunday Business Post--the Dublin newspaper most sympathetic to Sinn Fein--had rather given the game away with an article that said, "[T]he IRA, which is likely to maintain its ceasefire for several months, will almost certainly resist any attempt to accede to unionist demands for actual decommissioning of weapons by early summer."