The ill-advised Jefferson County and Harrisburg projects are specific cases of mismanagement that are not tied systemic risk and should have no bearing on the health of, for example, a muni bond-financed turnpike in New Jersey or a hospital in Virginia.

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Now, there are some other issues that have a bearing on how women succeed in the workplace -- for example, their health care.

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It was eventually agreed, for example, that, behind the formal gun carriage bearing the coffin, the mourners should wear lounge suits not uniforms, although a ludicrous debate persisted as to whether Elton John, a friend of the princess, should sing at the service.

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For example, the government, as a condition of bearing part or all of the cost of reducing the principal on a given loan, might have insisted on receiving some share of the future appreciation in the value of the property in question, perhaps by issuing a second mortgage that had to be paid off upon a sale.

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