"It makes strategic sense for us, " said Trevor Fetter, Tenet's CEO, in an interview.

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Fetter may not want another company to snatch away the fruits of a possible turnaround.

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Aside from the top 15 spenders listed, other heavy hitters for the Democrats include Trevor Fetter, CEO of Tenet Healthcare Corp.

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Don't fetter the economy and you'll find out that people want to produce, either want to produce things efficiently or produce efficient things.

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If so, did the Board fetter their discretion when they made the Mexico Port Deal with China, Mexico and a container company out of Hong Kong in 2006.

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The movement to fetter corporate Goliaths has had periodic victories.

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"We have changed our party policy so that there is now no fetter for us on selling uranium to India, " Ms Gillard told reporters on Tuesday, mid-way through her three-day visit.

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Trevor Fetter, President and CEO, Tenet Healthcare Corp.

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And despite his defeat in the Gulf War, continuing sanctions, and the determined effort of UN inspectors to fetter out and destroy his weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein has been able to develop biological and chemical munitions.

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At another local hospital, Memorial Medical Center, a small fleet of helicopters was brought in to evacuate patients and staff after hospital officials were told "by officials on the ground to take the matter into our own hands, " said Trevor Fetter, president of Tenet HealthCare Corp.

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