Some parents were forced to give up work completely to care for their child.

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And to give up alcohol completely smacks of the crash diet.

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This was because the amount of time devoted to the subject for those below GCSE had decreased, and some pupils had been able to give the subject up completely before the age of 14.

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James Anderson of the University of Kentucky is working with food companies to put the Toronto study's ingredients into a twice-a-day cereal bar, so people could reduce their cholesterol without having to completely give up meat.

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According to research in more than one million women, those who give up smoking by the age of 30 will almost completely avoid the risks of dying early from tobacco-related diseases.

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While the natural inclination after something like a brain aneurysm might be to completely reconfigure your value system and give up on much of your old life in favor of self-preservation at all costs, you have to resist that urge.

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"When I came off in the fourth, it just completely locked up and I got the trainer to give me a little massage down here with some heat, and it loosened up and loosened up really good, " Pettitte said.

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The only way that it can make money and continue to grow (and reward those frustrated new shareholders) is to personalize their offering so completely to each of its near-billion users that those users trust it so much that they give up ever more layers of personal information.

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