Studies demonstrate that cachexia is the direct cause of death in a small number of cancer patients (1 to 2 percent).
The goal here is not to claim a direct cause and effect between lowered tax rates and these remarkably improved economic metrics.
"I'm not sure that it is correct to say that medical problems were the direct cause of all of these bankruptcies, " he says.
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The only direct cause of the Buffalo landing was the defendant and a possible contributing cause may well have been JetBlue boarding procedures (or not).
This may have been the direct cause of the cease and desist notification its creators, Mane6, received last week, leading to the suspension of the project while Mane 6 seek to negotiate with Hasbro.
People are quite stupendously lazy if they can't see a direct cause-effect and I think that quite a few of the apathetic - "what difference will my vote make" - bunch would be more likely to exercise their franchise if they didn't have to exercise their legs.
"I think medical bills are something that a lot of families are having a lot of difficulty with and whether it's the direct cause of bankruptcy or whether it helps to push them over the edge because they already were in a precarious financial situation, it's a big concern and hopefully that's what medical reform will try to address, " he says.
CNN: Medical bills prompt more than 60 percent of U.S. bankruptcies
At least the Obamateers didn't suggest that Mr. Romney was the direct biological cause of her cancer.
They then went through them to see how many mentioned MRSA, the drug-resistant form of the infection, as a direct or contributing cause of death.
Haggling over the sums aside, the big pots of money that companies and their insurers pay out to settle litigation cause both direct and indirect losses.
It is quite similar to social entrepreneurship, although that term tends to involve a non-profit structure with a direct focus on a cause or the environment.
And one cause of low foreign direct investment in Canada is the magnetic lure of America itself.
This commemoration does not seek to coordinate funds toward a particular charity or to direct volunteers to support a specific cause.
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All the salesperson can do is direct the conversation with questions that cause the prospect to recognize their own need and the urgency to address it.
Though disabling an aircraft's avionics will obviously cause it to crash, in many other cases, no direct harm is done to people at all.
The direct warming due to doubling CO2 levels in the atmosphere can be calculated to cause a warming of about one degree Celsius.
They found that cardiac disease was the most expensive to treat - accounting for 44% of direct healthcare costs associated with weight problems - while back pain was the biggest cause of workplace absenteeism.
But nonprofit groups such as Common Cause and the Center for Democracy and Technology last year pressed for a direct election of at-large board members and, after winning the backing of the U.S. government, convinced ICANN to follow their advice.
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