But it's essentially an advisory board to provide the services a way to think together and then present that advice to the president.

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The 15-member Independent Medicare Advisory board will be formed amid concerns that it will arbitrarily turn down essential services based on overused so-called "comparative effectiveness" research.

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It is incumbent upon the United Nations to make use of special programmes of advisory services on a priority basis for the achievement of a strong and independent administration of justice.

UNESCO: Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action

For too long, Congress has been listening to parties with vested interests, such as IT and security companies that want to sell businesses more products and services and advisory services firms that hope for the cyber version of Sarbanes-Oxley so they can rack up another round of historic revenues.

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It highlights media independence and pluralism as fundamental to the process of democracy by providing advisory services on media legislation and by making governments, parliamentarians and other decision-makers aware of the need to guarantee free expression.

UNESCO: 3 May 2010

It's about to launch a series of Youth Advisory Boards which will oversee the commissioning of services in an area and share best practice.

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Michael Kirven, the boss of Bluewolf, one such advisory firm, says that because Amazon and other providers have made it so easy for companies to shift their services to the cloud, some customers have been lulled into thinking they don't need the same amount of backup protection as they would elsewhere.

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