Kennedy, 52, a fiscal moderate with a law degree from the University of Virginia and an advanced degree from Oxford, served as state Secretary of the Treasury and was special counsel to former Gov. Buddy Roemer.

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But it's still an open question as to how long the slowdown will last, and to what degree the economy will moderate going forward.

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The National Bureau of Economic Research paper, updated earlier this year, categorized hospitals by the degree of payment cuts (small, moderate, or large), then tracked actual patient outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries treated at these hospitals for heart attacks over an 11-year period.

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But how many moderate Republicans are willing to put up with a similar degree of humiliation?

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The men were asked in a questionnaire whether they suffered from ED and at what degree they were impotent (mild, mild-to-moderate, moderate or severe).

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