Analysts expect that with all things being equal, many patients will opt not to endure the open-heart procedure when given a choice.

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"If we limit ourselves simply to targeting al Qaeda -- without building the capacity of Afghanistan and Pakistan to deal with terrorism and violent extremism -- the security gains will not endure, " he said.

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But calorie-reduction is not all the mice had to endure.

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While we know that it is not easy for folks to endure the emotional roller-coaster that has characterized the equity markets for as long as most can remember, we think investors can steel their nerves by focusing on a diversified basket of undervalued dividend-paying stocks.

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Managements at NLY and ANH have been battle-tested through several rate and credit cycles, but newer entrants have only had to endure the Credit Crisis of 2008-09 and not a prolonged Fed rate hiking cycle.

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Shortly afterwards Karolos Papoulias, the plain-speaking Greek president, told Mrs Merkel the Greeks could not endure much more austerity.

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The two researchers suspected that the channels found in warm-water species would not work well in the freezing temperatures that their polar cousins endure.

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Stournaras also reiterated a promise to austerity-weary Greeks that, if all goes to plan, they would not have to endure any new cuts.

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New food products must endure the same costly testing for toxicity as drugs, but do not offer drug-like returns.

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And that is why, despite the risks they face, despite the hardships they endure, these women carry on -- because they know that they are fighting not just for their own rights and freedoms, but for the rights and freedoms of so many others.

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Clinicians may not think in these terms but consider some of the less-than-pleasant things they regularly convince patients to endure.

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Buffenstein said his book did not even attempt to explain the bureaucratic and cumbersome process growers must endure to hire farm workers legally on H-2A visas.

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