Its chief goal is to carve into law a patient-to-nurse ratio of 5-to-1 or less, a feat it achieved in California over the objections of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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In a small town outside of Guadalajara, he found an artist to hand-carve murals into doors made of ironwood.

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Leave to rest for 10 minutes, then carve into thin slices and serve with the juices, garlic and onions from the pot spooned over the top, and with the fava bean salad on the side.

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It started offering them in 1989, in an effort to carve out a niche apart from the commodity lenders who packaged their mortgages into securities or sold them to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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Efforts to carve out that link may have sparked another incident in February that brought Lebanese Sunnis into a direct clash with the Lebanese army near the country's eastern border with Syria.

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