Similarly, if you're in the remaining arm of a company that has been acquired, such as Bear Stearns or Lehman Brothers, you need to be even more careful about compensation, says Mr. Feiner.

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That put him to sleep, but in between doses he woke and cried again, saying that a gator had his leg or a bear was hugging him to death or a snake had wound itself around the long part of his arm and was crushing it.

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Or was he asked, as the government's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Jewell suggested on Radio Wales this morning, to write an arm's length report which set out the clinical case for change and bring his expertise to bear to make the case for change and deliver the killer argument for the government, and the health boards' case?

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