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For example, driving while intoxicated overlaps with alcoholism, but it constitutes an important issue in its own right because surveys consistently show that a substantial number of individuals who do not meet diagnostic criteria for alcohol abuse or dependence admit to having driven an automobile while intoxicated.
He procrastinated because there were reservations within his own party and administration about the wisdom of humanitarian intervention.
But in doing so, he more or less eviscerates his own claim that these machines belong in a modern art museum, as opposed to one focused on design, transportation, or history.
But the coldness that has become synonymous with Kubrick's name has little to do with his life, and everything to do with the clinical distance he maintained from his own characters.
When Georgia became independent in 1991, Abkhazia and South Ossetia--each with its own ethnic majority--agitated for greater autonomy, often clashing with Georgian troops.