Determining whether Herbalife satisfies the definition ought to be cut-and-dried.

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The authors of DSM-V attempt to capture this less than black-and-white picture by dispensing with the approach taken in previous DSMs, which was based on cut-and-dried checklists of symptoms.

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Which category something fits into isn't always cut-and-dried.

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"It's a very cut-and-dried case, " she said.

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Meanwhile, George W. Bush , a man who has spent his career in the most unpredictable industries imaginable, oil exploration and baseball, suddenly becomes the advocate of the cut-and-dried machine solution to a complex and subtle problem well beyond the tolerances of the machines in use.

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