In August, for example, Redux, a weight-loss pill, was withdrawn from sale for fear that it causes heart problems.

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The board's chairman, Ken Jenkins, says the act has adequate protections and that no-one should fear that the mental health provision will be used for anything other than preventing the sale of handguns and assault-style weapons to those who have been reported.

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The reason why all those accounting system sales reps vying for our business never got a sale is that they never addressed our fear of the regressive stage of change.

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