And they insist that the shift away from printed books will be slow, giving them more time to adapt to the brave new digital world.

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This Joining Forces commitment means there will be more than 3 million nurses ready to meet the needs of our brave men and women.

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Some brave managers will no doubt be tempted to take on a little more debt instead of revising their plans.

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Even if those brave assumptions turn out to be right, there will surely be plenty more zigs and zags in the UK recovery before 2012 is done.

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But I would suggest respectfully to all of my colleagues for all the wrong messages this resolution will send to our enemies, nothing it contains will be more devastating than what it says to our troops, to our military, those brave men and women in uniform who answered the call to arms, issued not by some ephemeral entity, but by us, by this Congress.

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The decision to publish more than 1, 000 pages of documents supporting Nick Pollard's report can be regarded as brave, or foolhardy, or simply - as we would see it - the duty of a publicly funded organisation.

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If she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, fought through rounds of chemo and radiation to no avail, and decided against a bone marrow transplant (which, in this hypothetical situation, which reflects the vast majority of real cases, would more likely kill her than enable a cure) she would be honored and remembered as noble, virtuous and brave.

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