The habitat impact of catching monkfish is "acceptable, " says Laurel Bryant, director of external affairs at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service, which counts and regulates how much fish is caught in the U.S. and maintains its own extensive seafood-buying guide called FishWatch.

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On the other hand, a Netanyahu victory would probably mean a different mood in Israel -- tougher rhetoric and more difficult external relations with Arab countries, Europe and the Obama Administration.

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This has absorbed White House energies up to the point where other regions of the world, particularly, our Western Hemisphere does not seem to be on the radar of an Administration working under very hectic conditions of internal and external pressure.

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Arguments for and against external appointments to public positions were presented to the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee a couple of years ago.

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It's a difficult relationship, it's always going to be a difficult relationship, it's a very strange relationship given the fact that David and I are not just dealing with the administrative elements, trying to get a four part coalition, a very strange four part coalition administration going, but we have also got to deal with the external issues like these issues that we're talking about today.

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