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As long as the owner retains the inhouse capabilities to operate as a smart buyer of facilities, there does not appear to be any greater risk from contracting out a broad range of design reviewrelated functions, so long as such functions are widely available from a competitive commercial marketplace.
The social content of the play--its "indictment" of the values of American capitalism and consumerism (as they say in 10 th -grade English)--retains something of its currency.
(Whereas Gear, which retains certain elements of the old men's mag ethos, and the old hostility--and not incidentally runs somewhat longer articles--does worry about and argue with feminism, as in its recent piece on sexual repression in the military, in which it is argued, after a fashion, that 1) we can't suppress male soldiers' urge to rape and harass women without suppressing the urge to kill that's the military's reason for being, 2) sexual harassment crusades interfere with women's equality, 3) women soldiers aren't men's equals anyway, and 4) why do we need women in the military in the first place?)
The discordant sibling CRFs are completed during the telephone interview, and the Clinical Coordinating Center sends 2 copies of the Informed Consent Form (ICF) to the verified discordant sibling, who returns 1 signed copy to the Center and retains 1 copy.
A Roman street that retains a picturesque name is Via delle Botteghe Oscure `Street of Dark Shops.