She takes calls that vary from minor questions to emergency situations, and provides callers with a recommended course of action based on their conversations.

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So given Obama's positions toward Israel on the one hand and Iran and its allies on the other, it seems clear enough that the logical endpoint of Obama's policies would look something like Brzezinski's recommended course of action.

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In 1920, HBS innovated the case method of research and teaching where students literally sink or swim entirely on the basis of their ability to persuade peers that their analysis and recommended course of action is the right one for the company in question.

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From my review of the tape and the transcript, I detected no sarcasm or bias only a single-minded effort to elicit answers to important questions about the conduct of the war in Iraq and Santorum's recommended course of action to deal with the changing conditions on the ground.

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Rickover recommended a course of action that would swing the human race over to renewable energy while conserving remaining carbon resources in the limited but sufficient time remaining.

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Their advanced age makes them far likelier to die from other causes, so the course of action typically recommended for them is watchful waiting or, sometimes, hormone therapy.

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It said there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone over the death but recommended action for perverting the course of justice for three officers, and there was "grave suspicion" over one of them, only identified as "Officer E".

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