However, with the new clinical data, Intuitive Surgical may have a hard time promoting the use of its system for hysterectomies.

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Moreover, it is hard to imagine a system in which individuals must give permission each time a friend wants to transfer their contact details.

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Solid-state storage and memory technologies in general use less power than hard disk drives when they are active, and thus there can be power savings if some solid-state storage and memory can be used in a mixed storage technology environment in a way that reduces the spinning time of hard disk drives and thus decreases the power needs of a storage system.

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"But even if we upgraded those systems, the lack of a really effective vaccine, the lack of better and faster drugs that shorten treatment to a reasonable time and the lack of good drugs for treating resistant disease -- make it hard for any health care system to effectively deal with the disease, " he said.

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