An account of seven new cases of NAION in patients who had recently taken Viagra were published recently in the Journal of Neurological Ophthalmology, apparently kick-starting the current discussion.

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Those affected will need to fill out self-assessment tax forms for the current financial year - starting in April - to show they still qualify for the payments.

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Indeed the current sovereign-debt jitters may be a sign that creditors are starting to assert themselves again, and demanding higher yields from less prudent governments.

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He reckons that starting from current levels of volatility, eliminating the business cycle would increase average well-being by the equivalent of a fall in the unemployment rate of only 0.2 percentage points.

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Taking that assurance at face value, prime contractor General Dynamics launched a campaign to convince Congress and the Obama Administration that buying a smaller number of the vehicles while upgrading current amphibious systems would be more cost-effective than canceling the program and starting over.

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