Short-lived disruptions like relatively brief power failures and moderate earthquakes can stop production for days.

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"Once she fell off the wagon, she couldn't stop, or even moderate, her drinking, " he writes.

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To start with, conservatives mounted a ferocious campaign to stop Arlen Specter, a moderate Republican from Pennsylvania, from becoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (this oversees judicial nominations and will become the main forum for conflict over the Supreme Court).

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The Obama administration had better stop listening to liberal-to-moderate academic pundit types who predict that the mandate will survive court review, and start figuring out how it will adapt ObamaCare if the health insurance mandate is struck down.

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"This study starts to look at some of the questions about decisions that physicians and families are making every day, treating loved ones in moderate to severe, what should be treating with, should they stop treatment, should they continue and if so how long, practical, " says Snyder.

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