Engaging and assisting these individuals will take valiant efforts but will also pay dividends to the nation by realizing future healthcare savings.

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Of course this is all true, but there are also swaths of producers who aren't realizing staggering prices and whose wine will also give years of pleasure.

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But just as India is realizing these challenges, it also already is responding, including appointing a climate change coordinator to each village council (and there are hundreds of thousands of villages in India).

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Realizing capital losses in the current year is not only advantageous from a financial perceptive, but it also reduces the emotional regret of watching a losing investment every day.

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