General Provisions. (a) The heads of executive departments and agencies shall assist and provide information to the Secretary of Labor or the Secretary's designee, consistent with applicable law, as may be necessary to carry out the responsibilities assigned by this order.

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The U.S. government proposed a more open, decentralized system, to be organized by the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

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There was bias in how the women were assigned to treatment, and the effect can be explained by that.

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"We've assigned every single one to the responsible bureau for immediate implementation, and several will be completed by the end of this calendar year, " he said.

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But the authority for making the proverbial trains run on time and the wherewithal for doing so should be reposed in the one organization that has demonstrated the ability to get done the job assigned it by the President: the Defense Department.

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The residential mortgage business is so profitable, in fact, that GMAC wants to protect it by spinning it off as a separate subsidiary, in the hope that it will be assigned a higher credit rating than the rest of the company.

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My favorite illustration of this is a study written up by Harvard placebo researcher Ted Kaptchuk and colleagues in 2008 in the British Medical Journal. 262 patients with severe irritable bowel syndrome were randomly assigned to either be on a waiting list, to get fake acupuncture, or to get fake acupuncture accompanied by lots of warm talk.

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