This conundrum may also be viewed in terms of the significance of the behavior of the monetary base, which is a combination of bank reserve deposits at the Fed (both required and excess) and currency outside the banking system.

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But these are vital to societal well-being because they distill our base instincts into civilized behavior.

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The goal of that common future, Clinton continued, should be for people the world over to strive to erase humankind's most base, most destructive modes of behavior.

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The incontrovertible bad behavior of the warmists has led skeptics to suspect base motives, and who could blame them?

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The behavior so shocked members of an independent panel that visited the Missouri base in September that they immediately urged that men and women quickly be moved to different floors.

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Caroline Schnakers, who carried out the research with Laureys, told CNN that one probable reason for the high rate of misdiagnosis is that doctors often base their diagnosis on observations of a patient's behavior, rather than assessing patients using standardized tests.

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Most reputation services for identifying malicious sites relies on a large install base of deployed appliances that report new URLs and their associated behavior back to a central database for automated inspection backed up by teams of researchers for those sites that defy automated analysis.

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Randall Larsen, director of the Institute for Homeland Security, was enthusiastic about the expanded base of people with access to "secret" intelligence, saying it is particularly needed by behavior detection officers, who look for travelers exhibiting unusual behavior.

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