The audit committee function is vital, as is the governance, compensation, and in some cases executive committee obligations.

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The 50, 000-plus wells other firms have successfully drilled in federal waters of the Gulf offer further evidence of how rare these instances are in an industry that serves such a vital function in the U.S. economy.

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Community banks serve a vital function all across the country.

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Generally speaking, the function of communications holds an increasingly vital role at the executive table.

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If CDER is allowed to re-write the history of Avandia, this vital FDA Center will continue to function as an unsupervised, self-regulating bureaucracy, accountable to no one.

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The MRC scientists say in humans this would be vital for spinal injury patients who had lost sexual function and bowel and bladder control.

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