Mueller also testified Thursday that he had serious reservations about the program, which allowed surveillance without warrants, at the time of the dramatic internal administration showdown and threats of top-level resignations.

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As the tensions between Mr Modi and his party indicate, the BJP remains riven by the internal disagreements that surfaced after the party lost power at the national level three years ago.

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Working at such a fine level of internal detail allows the stiffness and flexibility of an object to be determined at any point, says Siavash Mahdavi, the chief executive of Within Technologies.

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The Greens held on to third place in Germany, but at EU level the movement remains limited by its internal incoherence: some Euro-Greens are quasi-liberals, others are allied with the extreme left.

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So the point being, at the 40, 000 foot-level, even though the outcome of the two seemed similar, the internal methodology of how you got there was entirely different.

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At a less extreme level the transition issues created by a hypothetical Internal Revenue Code of 2013 will keep me occupied until my normal retirement age in 2018.

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Then a formal, thought-out system of supervision and risk management is created and applied at every level to ensure execution of the strategy and protection against internal and external threats.

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Now that I am on the other side, I not only understand the frustration, but conversations with my colleagues have suggested ways in which Big Pharma companies can maintain a level of thoroughness while increasing the speed at which they conduct internal reviews.

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Whirlpool says only a tiny minority of washer owners have actually complained about foul smells (although one internal survey put the level with all appliances, including dishwashers, at above 30%), and the company made a number of design changes over the years to address the problem.

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