When the Department of Homeland Security was created as part of the "war on terror, " the old Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was subsumed into the agency, and the repackaged bureaucracy was put back in the loop (the State Department is the access point for visas).

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The oil trajectory that actually occurs will depend critically both on the short-term evolution of the Loop Current, which feeds into the Gulf Stream, and on the state of the overlying atmosphere.

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For over twenty years, the Inspector General has recommended that Congress close the loop-hole in the federal law applicable to pensions, ERISA, that allows this state of affairs to persist.

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Loop quantum gravity, as this rival is known, was dreamed up in 1986 by Abhay Ashtekar, of Pennsylvania State University.

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