He promised to give the parliament a stronger voice in the EU's law-making procedure, receiving warm applause from much of the parliament.

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If two-thirds of the Senate can be persuaded that a bilateral chemical weapons accord is in the U.S. interest, despite its utter unverifiability, there is a constitutionally mandated procedure for making the terms of such an accord the supreme law of the land.

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In one of the biggest shifts in two decades, dozens of hospitals have started offering the new approach, a less invasive procedure that entails making five or six keyhole incisions through which instruments and a tiny camera are inserted.

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He survived the procedure once already, making him one of just a small handful of players in history to recover from it.

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But early studies reporting positive results for the vertebroplasty procedure did not have control groups, making it unclear whether the purported benefits were simply due to the placebo effect or the natural tendency of chronic pain to subside over time.

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If passed, the bill aims to simplify procedures for making and enforcing local authority bylaws by introducing an alternative procedure for local authorities.

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In Revenue Procedure 2011-41, the IRS provides a safe harbor for making these basis allocations.

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We were making lots of decisions, but we were coordinating them with all the agencies through the video teleconference procedure.

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Shortly after the pope's announcement nearly two weeks ago, a different rumor began making its way through the Italian press: Allegations that the pontiff's decision was linked to a medical procedure to replace the battery in his pacemaker.

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