When you start to remove the state from the equation, this opens the door to many potential opportunists, deregulatory capture, and so forth.

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Who is supposed to worry about our ignorance of what the true equation of state is of the ablator that is supposed to push the fuel inwards so that it compresses while staying cold?

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The law took juries and state courts out of the equation.

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However, the Haley approach brings the private sector into the equation, so the State and the business community jointly exert a market demand for quality, transparency, and cost-effectiveness.

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However, if you have been the victim of some extraordinarily low life behavior on the part of credit card operators, expect that the same sort of treatment would evolve out of removing state regulation of insurance companies from the equation.

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For its part, Taipei wants Beijing to state unequivocally that the "China" in the equation doesn't mean the political entity known as the People's Republic of China.

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"I think he believes there is a place for using the criminal sanctions to address the drug-abuse problem, but he's more open to giving a hard look to solutions that look at the demand side of the equation, " said Alison Holcomb, drug-policy director with the Washington state American Civil Liberties Union.

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