Balanced against that, according to a story filed by CNN's Barbara Starr last year, after the publication of "No Easy Day, " the head of U.S. special operations, Adm.

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The point is that whatever risks antidepressants may eventually be shown to have that we don't currently understand must be balanced against the ravages inflicted upon life and limb by depression.

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So the needs of the economy and social provision have to be balanced against the danger of creating new problems for the future by allowing further development on flood plains.

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Madison and the Boys who created the U.S. Constitution attempted to guard against democracy running amok in this fashion by constructing a delicately balanced arrangement of limited government with separated and divided powers, and by erecting institutional checks and balances.

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The board, by not recommending against the Brookfield offer, has shown that it intends to make a balanced recommendation on any offer put before the company.

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