Their loss of discrimination was reflected in the piriform cortex, which now produced similar electrical patterns in response to both odours.

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In 2009, facing a likely loss in an anti-discrimination lawsuit, the county just north of New York City negotiated an agreement with the federal government designed to make Westchester's government a force for fair housing.

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Certainly since the early nineteen-nineties, there has been a loss of aesthetic and moral discrimination in Italian life, an anything-goes feeling that culminates in the spectacle of a serving Prime Minister accused of contracting a minor for sex.

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Producers make the case for discrimination: consumers may benefit in the short term from lower prices, but in the long term the loss of revenue to brand owners will discourage them from investing in their brands, or from competing fiercely with other brands.

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