The future of the city hall complex would be "considered with a high degree of sensitivity", the authority said.

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The Chirac they describe lacks the degree of clear direction and application to haul a country as complex as France on to a fresh track away from its old feather-bedded, statist ways.

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The whole point of the "risk adjusted" element of RAMI is that it's meant to allow at least some degree of comparison between death rates in different hospitals, even if say, one is a small hospital doing very little complex surgery, and another is a large hospital treating a high number of trauma and critical cases.

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Joan Weiner, who has a degree in social systems sciences, notes that although approaching sustainable innovation in a holistic way holds the challenge of bringing together the complex, interrelated sets of pieces into a new and continually changing system, the benefits are potentially great.

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