In all events, athletes compete against the clock, skiing a prescribed course requiring turns through pre-positioned gates.

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Do complete the prescribed course even if you feel better, as not taking the full course encourages the emergence of resistance.

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He prescribed a course of anti-depressants for five of the chimps.

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At the other are those who side with the IMF, which last week prescribed a course of fiscal retrenchment for the world, softened with a commitment by central banks to extended easy monetary policy and perhaps even more expansion of their balance-sheets.

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He was introduced to a well-known traditional healer in Jakarta, who prescribed a course of treatment that included getting a massage, sitting on hot clay bricks wrapped in a towel, and drinking a solution made from papaya leaves and temu lawak (a type of root).

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Importantly, the initiation of this proceeding also carries out the course of action prescribed by the Middle Class Tax Relief and Jobs Creation Act of 2012 for expanding spectrum for unlicensed use.

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Lipitor, of course, is prescribed to prevent heart attacks, and Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) placed the billboards on the highway from the New Orleans airport to the city's convention center more than three months ago to greet doctors attending a cardiology meeting.

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