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One physical therapist was the examiner in the cervical spine pain provocation study.
The provocation: a statement by National Security Adviser Samuel Berger, in a letter to Democratic Sen.
In Germany yesterday for the 10 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, former President Bush reminisced about some bad advice he received a decade ago: "In my view, that would have been an open provocation, tantamount to sticking our fingers in the eyes of the Soviet military."
"The sex drive in a man is almost volcanic in its latent ability to erupt at the slightest provocation."
Like Rockefeller 100 years ago, Gates came to the national attention with a pugnacious, imperial style that irritated government lawyers who needed no provocation to do what they were hired to do.