IPOs are not in principle severable from the working or failings of the secondary market.

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Okay, I'm going to treat this as a completely severable event.

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And for this purpose, let's keep them as severable.

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It is also the most visible legal weakness in the act, which is why supporters of the ACA have now suggested that the mandate is severable from the remainder of the act.

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So far as I can tell, Alaska Airlines was not objecting to deregulation itself, so implicitly it wanted to treat the EPP as severable from deregulation, but it wantred to treat the legislative veto as inseparable from the rest of the EPP.

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