Building them closer to the customer location obviates the logistical issues of transporting them from India.

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Some have suggested that maybe this obviates the need for reconciliation rules for health care.

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Best of all, it completely obviates the need to ever go outside again.

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Acceptance of English, French and German as the commission's working languages obviates the need to translate every scrap of paper into all 11 official languages.

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Additionally, it obviates some of the worry that the target audience will simply skip or glance over the commercial, negating the desired impact of the spot.

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Against that, it can be argued that it is only by providing a universal service that one obviates problems posed by those who are reluctant to claim and those who distrust means testing.

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This obviates the need to continue to try to win the issue state-by-state over time, and it creates a guarantee that cannot easily be undermined or withdrawn by state legislatures and the political process.

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One sweet new feature is the inclusion of a 2.6GB hard drive, which obviates the need to be switching SD cards when you need to change map sets (units will ship with a full set of street level maps of Europe).

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Blaming the victim obviates that need.

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Opponents of embryonic stem cell research, which involves destroying the donated embryos from which cell lines are derived, have long argued that the discovery of iPS cells in 2006 (for which Shinya Yamanaka was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine this past year) obviates the need for embryonic stem cell research.

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