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Le Monde said the United States was isolated on bananas and had managed to unite the whole of Europe against it by "maladroitly" including Scottish cashmere among the European products it has chosen to penalize.
6. Emergency and trauma physicians, their respective professional organizations, and alcohol advocacy groups should contact their state insurance regulator, state department of health and human services, and legislators involved in insurance issues to urge amending state insurance codes that financially penalize hospitals and physicians who screen for alcohol.
The physical resemblance to the canonical stem-loop precursor was also assessed with metrics that reward continuous helical pairing and progressively penalize internal loops of increasing size.
Allowances are allocated to each power plant based on 1997 emissions using a formula that does not penalize the "clean" plants that already have a low NOx or SO2 emission rate.
While the critique echoes conservative complaints about multiculturalism (harassment law makes women helpless victims), it also incorporates a libertarian strain (government should not pry into consensual sexual relations) and an Epicurean one (we shouldn't penalize people with active libidos; so long as nobody gets hurt--or helped--who cares?)