One in eight admissions to general hospitals in the UK are for gut conditions and diseases, and almost one in four main operations within general hospitals are performed on the digestive tract.
In the run-up to Britain's general election in May, the three main parties all supported change.
There was one problem: the government kept putting off requests for bids, in part because the main Humvee manufacturer, a large corporation in Indiana called AM General, appeared to have enough clout in Congress to get the process delayed, staving off competition.
"Syria is the backbone of the resistance (in the region) and its main supporter, " Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech broadcast live on Hezbollah-owned Al Manar Television.
The contest offered a foretaste of what is to come when, for the first time in a British general election, the leaders of the three main parties will slug it out in prime time.
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There has again been speculation about the revival of a "third front" - a loose alliance of regional parties - to take on the ruling Congress party and the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the general elections.
Badges in general were the main reason for our respondents to use the services, followed by insider tips and mayorships.
That will also make the televised debates of the three main party leaders a first in a British general election a crucial part of the campaign.
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Rolando Panchana, an assembly member for Alianza Pais and one of the bill's main backers, says the current law, passed in 1975 under the military rule of General Guillermo Rodriguez Lara, is restrictive and undemocratic.
No two rooms are alike, but in general, the best are on high floors in the front of the historic main building.
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For many years, the tension inherent in her post was muted because few people thought it was the main job of the attorney-general to investigate the government.
Such efforts helped AK to overtake the main Kurdish party in the south-east in the 2007 general election.
The two attackers were killed in a gunfight but haven't yet been identified, said Ahafadul Mujtaba, the director inspector general of police in Srinagar, the main city in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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The categories that cover the main players in politics social-welfare groups, labor unions, trade associations have the same general rules.
For civil libertarians, the main worry about General Hayden is his role in Mr Bush's programme of warrantless wiretaps in America.
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"The main goal is to try to assess this material in a very general way that will give us an appraisal of the habitability of this environment, " he explained.
In the last decade, main stream corporations like Walmart, General Electric and Waste Management got into the act with eco-innovations to better meet customer and investor expectations.
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In the general election last year, one of the main issues was foreign-born residents who some accuse of taking jobs, pushing down salaries at the lower end and pushing up property prices.
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General Musharraf's opponents, particularly those in the main secular opposition parties, argue that such a tactic is unconstitutional.
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There are four main possibilities: the owners of the corporation, owners of capital in general, workers, and consumers.
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Unfortunately, the main motive for the road-use tax in the case of Oslo is to raise general revenue for the government, and not to improve the city's transport system.
General Masud Uddin Chowdhury, the main adversary of the army chief, General Moeen U Ahmed, was in effect demoted for the second time since he led the coup that ousted the squabbling politicians in January 2007.
General Stanislav Galic was captured in the northern town of Banja Luka, the main city in the Bosnian Serb Republic.
Observers say the LCD party, which now becomes the main opposition, may be reduced to a shell ahead of general elections due in May.
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In the summer of 2004, Sanchez was replaced by General George Casey, whose main objective was to train an Iraqi Army and police force to take over so that the Americans could get out.
He explained that from now on Mr Rebelo and Fifa's secretary-general, Jeremy Valcke, would be "the two main elements" in the preparations for the event.
In a general sense, vocal cord paralysis can be more difficult to treat since the main focus is to make the folds further apart to improve the airway, but not so much as to affect the quality of the voice.
If the economy continues to improve in a way that affects Main Street as well as Wall Street, that would be good for the party in power and incumbents in general, Avlon added.
In the weeks after last month's general election, the leader of the Czechs' main left-wing party, which won the poll, and the leader of the main right-wing one, which came second, both failed to gather up enough allies to form a government.
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