Bush all but said the other candidates, with their instant denials and coy cooperation with the witch-hunts, were taking the easy way out.

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Are you taking the easy way out of a bind?

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State governments across the nation have been taking this easy way out, ordering their colleges to take vets, their kids, and even on some proposals grandchildren of vets, without funding it.

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The problem is that medullary cancer is so rare and develops so slowly over decades, that there is be no easy way to rule out the possibility that the drugs might boost cancer risk decades after people start taking them.

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