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  • "Gov. Scott's decision demonstrates a devastating lack of vision for Florida and a lack of understanding of our economic situation, " Castor said.

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  • They think it's the lack of growth (and lack of flexibility in the timetable for borrowing) that will make the programme politically unsustainable, not any lack of fortitude on the part of the chancellor.

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  • Although this particular study did not look at reasons that the parents were or were not providing their children with supplements, Shaikh points toward two main factors that may be at play, which she finds equally challenging: lack of parental financial ability and lack of public health education for parents of lower income families.

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  • The NMC struck him off - citing his lack of care for his patient and his "evident lack of insight and remorse" - to send, they said, a "clear message" to both the public and other nurses over professional standards.

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  • It referred to widespread criticism of summary reports for lack of objectivity on the part of IPCC staffers from environmental activist groups such as Greenpeace and Environmental Defense.

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  • Mr. Morrissey, for example, traces his lack of respect for the American cult of message discipline to his disdain for American football, that most top-down of sports.

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  • "The examiners consider that the very large number of investigative bodies has resulted in excessive fragmentation of efforts, lack of specialised expertise, lack of transparency both for the public and for investigative authorities, and problems in achieving coherent action, " the report said.

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  • Look, there are -- there always was -- based on the type of cap that will go on the riser was predicated on the, for lack of a better term, the smoothness of the cut.

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  • Except for my lack of admiration for Mr. Jobs, my R.

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  • He identified three critical problems in Afghanistan: the lack of legitimacy for the government, the existence of safe havens for terrorists across the border in Pakistan, and the lack of military resources.

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  • Twenty-two people, including several policemen, which had been accused of being involved in the attack were absolved for lack of evidence in 2004, after nearly three years of court proceedings.

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  • None of this, however, can compensate for the lack of regional oxygen that has choked economic growth for three successive years.

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  • America has been criticised in the past for its lack of engagement with the rest of the world - for its reluctance, for example, to sign up to treaties that aim to tackle global problems.

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  • "It was a mixture of elation and, for lack of a better word, terror, " said Hollister, a professor of biomedical and mechanical engineering who has been studying tissue regeneration for more than 15 years.

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  • The larger answer is that no, the United States is not a mean country made up of mean people getting meaner, because a call for spending cuts is not indicative of a lack of care for others unless you are convinced that the spending is actually working to lift people out of poverty.

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  • It highlighted the absence of a coherent skills strategy and the lack of preparedness for implementation of the Curriculum for Excellence.

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  • Restricted access to screenings and skilled radiologists, long waiting lines for exams, and lack of insurance coverage for mammography are among other issues identified as unique to some of these locations.

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  • In 2007 he was acquitted of her murder, for lack of conclusive evidence, but sentenced to life in prison on eight other counts of rape and one of rape and murder.

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  • The first -- which should be just a matter of time -- is the lack of support for any of the next-gen audio codecs, but the second might not ever happen.

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  • The observed lack of lending could just as easily be driven by a lack of demand for business capital.

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  • However, in trying to neutralize my critique, all he has succeeded in demonstrating is his disregard for the most basic facts, to say nothing of a lack of concern for a reasoned and critical assessment of the imperfect studies bearing on a murky scientific question.

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  • BET, treasured by some as the only channel devoted to black entertainment, is trashed by others for a lack of social conscience, a surfeit of crude comedy and a predilection for music videos rife with flashy cars, quivering cleavage and gyrating hips.

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  • Brazilian authorities have been criticized for a lack of disaster planning, and for allowing people to build homes in areas known to become treacherous in the rainy season.

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