French patients retain their choice of primary physician, who, while acting as a gatekeeper in order to limit redundant tests, is not employed by an insurance firm to do so.

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"Personally, I think that having some threshold would give some more uniformity to the test, but pragmatically we don't want to limit the sensitivity of tests, " said Prof David Cowan from King's College London, who is in charge of anti-doping at next summer's London Olympic Games.

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The text message format puts a limit of 160 characters on each poem, which tests the ingenuity and creativity of the poets.

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There is a limit however to how much talking the fed can do before the market tests pushing rates higher.

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Tests after his death showed he was three times over the drink-drive limit.

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After several coordination tests, he was given a breathalyzer test that registered 0.139, well above the legal limit of 0.08 for a driving under the influence charge, the report said.

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