But Nihad Awad, of the Council on American Islamic Relations, says he's encouraged by the fact that her captors have set and ignored an earlier deadline, meaning they may be more likely to eventually let her go.

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While the states could point to higher Medicaid costs due to tobacco (poor people are much more likely to be smokers, and smokers have a lot of chronic illnesses) that calculation ignored the fact that smokers also tend to die younger, and so avoid the medical expenses some elderly people run up at the end of life.

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If an archive of the decision is available at the time of the decision, and more importantly, known to be available later, it is much less likely that the analysis will be ignored.

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Whereas in China restrictive, business and productivity-inhibiting regulations would likely be ignored and un-enforced in Japan they are more likely to respected and faithfully implemented, regardless of costs or, indeed, customer satisfaction.

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