In fact, some advisers feel clients may fare better, since special programs generally have no flexibility in penalties based on individual circumstances.

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But he said many well-intended government initiatives were disappearing and the council would now have the freedom and flexibility to do less and make better use of taxpayers' money.

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Other Republican Governors have asked for little or nothing in the way of increased flexibility from Washington to better administer their programs.

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Wagons still have plenty of cargo space and flexibility, and wagon style has never been sleeker or better.

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Such flexibility could have freed them from all of the federal rules that prevent Governors from better tailoring Medicaid benefits based on individual need.

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