The staff was knowledgeable and helpful and there was absolutely no rushing or pressure of any kind.

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The study is particularly important because an NIH study, AIM-HIGH, was stopped earlier than expected, in April 2011, because it was so clear that the extended release niacin provided no benefits and continuing the trial would not be helpful.

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Go to a lawyer, a doctor, a financial wizard and you come away with a bill and perhaps a morsel of advice that may be no more helpful than that dispensed by the Delphic Mrs Lederer.

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The bank had no real answers, he said, and wasn't very helpful.

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The final step may be no longer touting these benefits as helpful for working moms, and instead, instilling them as HR norms for creating an engaged and productive staff.

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Then too, aside from declaring that the peace agreement between the southern Sudanese and the Khartoum government must not be permitted to unravel, she offered no helpful advice on how to prevent that from occurring.

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But the bankruptcy laws that are almost certainly going to be quite helpful to Casey Anthony will offer no such recourse to the men and women who borrowed money so they or their loved ones could attend college.

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While there is no surefire on-the-spot way to sniff out dissemblers, there are some helpful clues and tactics for uncovering untruths.

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