Apparently, they do "charity work, " including sending nearly 5, 000 Peruvians for eye operations in Venezuela over the past year.

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It is an embarrassment for the facility operators, and quite frankly, it is a black-eye for NFL operations.

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Sixty-five NHS patients had also waited six months for treatment, while 52 had waited 18 weeks, even though new referrals for eye and joint operations had been suspended last autumn.

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The Russian government recently hired investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein to value the natural gas operations of Yukos with an eye toward putting them up for auction.

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Eye lid surgery as well as face and neck-lift operations both soared in popularity in both sexes in 2012.

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His eye troubles forced him to submit to a series of tricky and painful operations.

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Mr Filin told the BBC that his right eye has been more damaged than his left, he had undergone five operations and was under constant monitoring.

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The 650 eye surgeons in the program, who in the most recent reporting year performed 39, 200 operations in 37 countries, donate their time and even pay their own travel costs (usually tax-deductible).

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Mr. Murdoch said the scandal, which he has described in the past as a "major black eye" on the company, had "absolutely nothing" to do with the decision to split off the publishing operations.

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