This kind of doublespeak became more and more troubling, and my career came to an end over a job involving revising a manuscript supporting the use of a drug for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), with a duration of action that fell between that of shorter- and longer-acting formulations.

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Over the last 15 years, nearly ever new job created came from business start-ups or small businesses.

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The diagnosis of hypertension came only a week after he took over the Dynamo Kiev job after resigning from the Ukraine national team post and two days after his new team beat Dinamo Zagreb 2-0 on match-day 2 of the UEFA Champions League.

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Then, in 2004, when the Medicare job came open at a particularly politically sensitive time, he was asked to move over there to oversee implementation of the brand new prescription drug benefit.

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The plunge was due came after the government released disappointing job numbers, amidst financial markets already nervous over home loan defaults and a tumultuous credit market, and a consumer fretting slipping home values, and rising food and energy prices.

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"It wasn't great conditions there underfoot and we came over here with the attitude, you know, just want to get the job done and we didn't care how we did it and that's how we did it, we did it the hard way, " Blair added.

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