It is time that the medical profession and the medical education system gave top priority to solving them, not on a small scale, but across the board. 200, 000 preventable deaths per year in US hospitals are 200, 000 deaths too many.

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But Rod Booth, who chairs the Independent Monitoring Board, denied there were full scale riots.

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Remember that about a year and a half ago in October of 2004 the Los Angeles Board of Education approved a plan to scale down all the sprawling district's secondary schools and even smaller schools from 350 to 500 students ideally.

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On a scale of 1 to 100 on such issues as transparency and board independence, Infosys scores 91.

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This theory was first aired a year ago following a small-scale study, and was ridiculed by the National Radiological Protection Board, the watchdog on health issues involving radiation and electromagnetic fields.

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The Conference Board added that it did not anticipate job losses on the scale of those seen in previous downturns because employers have kept their payrolls leaner.

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An initial successful feasibility study into the development of LaserSnake was funded by the Technology Strategy Board, and the new funding will help them to develop the technology to a full-scale demonstration phase.

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The upcoming vote pits the newly reconstituted board and turnaround management team at Tessera, a technology development and licensing firm that invented chip-scale packaging (CSP) technology for improved semiconductor performance in the 1990s and is now blazing a trail in advanced semiconductor interconnect technology, against a board takeover attempt by the activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP.

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