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Before the Goldwater-Nichols reform, each branch of the military too often carried out its operations with little heed to what its counterparts were doing, a situation that seriously hampered effective prosecution of the Vietnam War.
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These interventions are stopping smoking, promoting single pregnancies in IVF treatments, reducing planned Caesarean sections - which are often carried out before due dates - unless there is a medical reason by 80%, providing progesterone supplements to women with high-risk pregnancies and cervical stitches for women with a "weak" cervix that could mean a baby does not go to term.
BBC: 'Too little known' on early birth
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"It's very often not carried out by young people themselves and it's something we need to focus on in relation to all aspects of our society, not just the individuals who very often get blamed for it, " he said.
BBC: Debate on anti-social behaviour
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Foreign companies have been slow to bring new drugs into Japan, because doing so requires expensive and cumbersome trials often duplicating those already carried out in other countries.
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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
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Instead, transfers are invariably carried out by intermediaries, often lawyers or family members.
BBC: Fifa to keep Olympics age limit
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"The financial crisis started with the subprime debacle in the United States where mortgages were being handed out with no background checks carried out on whether consumers could afford them, and ill-informed and often vulnerable consumers were encouraged to take excessive risk, " said EU Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier.
BBC: Tighter rules for mortgage lending agreed by EU
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The study, carried out by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, suggests that young carers tend to be tired at school and often miss days.
BBC: Play festival for child carers
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These latest findings bear out earlier research, carried out by, amongst others, Pam Meadows for the NAPF, which has all shown that the often-repeated slogan about the increasingly flexible labour market is indeed a myth.
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