The SEC alone has almost 40 separate rules that it hopes to adopt before year end.

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An oversight in the recent Health and Social Care Act is set to alter this status quo, however, and remove the requirement for STI Clinics to hold their data on separate stand alone systems.

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Then, spin off the consumer banking operation into a separate stand-alone business.

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Before independence in 1991, Kazakhstan had no history of separate nationhood, let alone entrepreneurship.

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In 2010 alone, extra funding was required on five separate occasions to prevent reimbursement rates from plummeting.

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Alone Yet Together contained 100 fish suspended in formaldehyde in separate perspex cabinets, while Loss of Memory is Worse than Death is a steel cage encasing more formaldehyde containers.

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Medical professionals have called for further work to look at the feasibility of a stand-alone, midwife-led maternity unit, and a separate inpatient surgery centre, so planned operations are not disrupted or delayed by emergencies.

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In fact, there are 22 separate relationships between the boards of Plains and Freeport alone.

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The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through the automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable.

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With a separate account, the cost basis of the securities in your portfolio is yours alone.

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