The government tries to adjust its payments based on the perceived patient risk, but the insurance industry has figured out a way to game that system and extract even more profit by focusing on the least costly patients for a given medical condition, one recent academic study found.

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Even if it could be agreed, I'm not sure that a bank levy to extract 30bn euros from the financial system, in the name of "private sector burden-sharing", really fits that description.

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The ARTAS system itself is only used to extract the individual hair follicles under guidance of a doctor using computer imaging.

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Although extra testosterone brings advantages, it can also extract a price by weakening a chick's immune system.

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The first step for a facial recognition system is to recognise a human face and extract it from the rest of the scene.

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The master model will likely be much more like a master data management system or a complex of federated queries that extract data that then may be used in a data mart for special purposes.

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