The firm operated on a billable hours system, a sure-fire way to kill the creative process.

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Given this context, I am saddened to report that those responsible for operating the electric power grid in New England are pursuing a radical proposal to push power prices up, prevent businesses from growing and kill clean-energy in the process.

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For instance, as I talked about yesterday, in a normal process, there are choke and kill lines that are supposed to -- that in some cases will force mud, as they did under the top kill, into the blowout preventer.

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The notion that we would go -- the notion that the best step forward for health care is to kill the process we're on would simply do damage to what many people, including Dr. Dean, have worked many, many years for.

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