And I tend to be more stern than I need to be with patients who try to bully others, almost certainly another legacy of my own early experience.
As such, credit must be given to Mr. Stern for recognizing the dire straits his league faced from the very onset of his tenure as commissioner.
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On two par-3s he allows himself to be goaded into closest-to-the-hole bets with Stern the marketer (Davis cleans him out).
Though the number of subscribers who came to Sirius for Stern and would bolt without him will never be known, not having to replace a brand as distinct as his is widely seen as a positive for the company.
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The sponsors of the conference had pleaded with me to make the trek to deliver a stern warning to the government pension plan trustees who would be in attendance: the advice their funds were receiving from Wall Street stockbrokers posing as pension specialists was tainted by conflicts of interests that were profoundly undermining pension returns.
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This sort of innovation appears to be working: NYU Stern reports a 60% increase in attendance from last year.
He had an austere childhood in a remote Jura village, growing up with a stern father (not to be disappointed) and a depressive mother (not to be troubled by his own fears).
There is, in short, no reason to expect Mr Duisenberg and his bank to be anything other than stern and independent, at least at the outset, though what might happen if political fashion turned against monetary stringency is another matter.
In a 2006 interview on the Forbes.com Video Network, Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern said "we have to be a partner" with employers.
From the scientific perspective, for the story to close for science, flight rates have to be high, said Alan Stern, chair of the scientific organizing committee for the conference and associate vice president of the Southwest Research Institute's Space Science and Engineering Division in Boulder.
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He had closed his round of talks on Thursday with a stern summation of benchmarks that needed to be achieved to establish peace in the region.
The recovery may not seem quite as strong outside top schools like Stern, but it still appears to be a reality across the business education spectrum.
In the quarters England face a stern test against Australia, who will be itching to wipe out the memory of their narrow loss to them in the 2003 final.
It will also be interesting to see if Mr Obama will be stern rather than laying on the love with a trowel as he did in Jerusalem when he met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
So Francis sought out the wolf and gave the animal a stern lecture, telling him he deserved to be hanged for his crimes.
Mr Stern said the benefits to them from doing so would be substantial, however much the industrial countries dragged their feet.
The match will mark the official opening of Agen's new ground and will be a stern test for the Aviva Premiership Rugby side with a month to go until the start of the new season.
They're going to be, in fact, in a very, very stern manner put through the process.
The company last included Stern in its survey in 2009 but says his numbers tend to be pretty stable.
"Paul had to be significantly better than any other candidate, " says Marc Stern, a director and longtime friend of Irwin's who led the "search" for his successor.
Toshack will be eternally grateful to Vokes' goal-poaching ability but this is a stern wake-up for Wales call before their tough midweek trip to Euro 2008 semi-finalists Russia.
Sir Nicholas Stern estimates that the average per capita carbon footprint will need to be reduced to 2 tonnes per person (with an expected population of 9 billion people in 2050) for us to limit the adverse impacts of climate change.
Regular lamentations over new evidence that the system isn't working are met with stern demands from professional educators that the real issue be faced, namely the need to spend more money, mostly on them.
Like most mergers, Boros added, there is synergy to be had, including paying less for talents such as the controversial Howard Stern.
It is therefore a good sign that the court, often seen as a stern bastion of Turkey's secular fundamentalists, has now shown itself to be sensitive to outside opinion in this way.
But despite what I believe to be inflated claims of financial distress oft lamented recently by NBA Commissioner David Stern, I do see some salary cap exceptions being abolished while others become tightened.
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The FBI first contacted the NBA on June 20 to talk about a referee alleged to be gambling on games, and the two sides met on June 21, Stern said.
And as many doctors strive to move away from a stern and lecturing stereotype, confronting patients without alienating them can be especially challenging.
There might not be much that's truly new in the Stern report, but it does create a new political imperative to do something about it.
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