Moscow's powerful mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, makes sure that young men from his city serve either locally or on Russia's balmy Black Sea coast.

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But it is also true that they would seek to minimize any strategic advantage Israel might gain either locally or internationally from removing this clear and present danger to Israel specifically and to international security generally.

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The vast majority of the content is made locally, either in Delhi or Bombay.

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With a combination of their current hotel inventory, use of campus facilities at either USC or UCLA, LAX plus additional airports locally that can help lighten the load, and a large population of sports enthusiasts dying for a chance to participate in an international sporting event, L.A. clearly has all of their ducks in a row.

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It also warned that while there was not a culture within the department that could be properly described as bullying, there was evidence that "well-intentioned decisions and directives have either been interpreted further down the hierarchy as bullying, or resulted in them being applied locally in an oppressive manner".

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