Clearly, they expect more Western offers will be made to induce them to be more tractable.

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The new Congress elected in October, which starts work in February, may be more tractable.

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Preventing dementia may prove far more tractable than treating patients who are already well into cognitive decline.

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For now, market concern is more concentrated on Spain, which in some ways appears the more tractable problem.

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Gates then selected a successor to retiring Marine Corps Commandant General James Conway who was likely to be more tractable in deliberations about future military needs.

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Real danger attends the possible perception in Baghdad (and elsewhere) that the new U.S. president will prove more tractable, or at least too distracted, to deal effectively with the Iraqi despot.

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This backlash will help define the biotech and pharmaceutical industries in the coming years, because it means over time a shift in opportunities and capital away from a search for the next psychiatric blockbuster toward solutions to more tractable human troubles that arise outside of the central nervous system.

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