"Absolute humidity, for reasons that remain undetermined, is affecting how long the virus remains viable, " he says.

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"Diagnoses made casually and based on insufficient evidence can stick with someone for life, causing needless stigma and affecting job and insurance opportunities long after the substance problem has resolved, " he says.

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While I would have chosen A Long Long Way for its affecting, unpretentious style, The Sea shares many of that book's qualities.

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Patients get points for the urgency of their surgery, how badly their ailment is affecting their lives, and how long they have waited.

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Ultimately, the public purse would top up only pensions that fell short of the real value of today's pensions--mainly affecting those who had been unemployed for long periods or who had spent little time in a paying job.

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Whither Japan endeavors to present and analyze long term and fundamentally important factors affecting Japan, not the sensational event or controversy of the moment.

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In reviewing the long-term trends and considerable change affecting the consumer publishing industry, Pearson and Bertelsmann both concluded that the publishing and commercial success of Penguin and Random House can best be sustained and enhanced through a partnership with another major international publishing house.

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That clause requires that a state law affecting the affairs of a single municipality can only be passed as long as two-thirds of its local legislative body agrees.

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