America had no option whatsoever to threaten in-kind retaliation.

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In connection with investor redemptions it could not meet in 2008, Yorkville Advisors restructured its hedge fund operations, creating special purpose vehicles and giving redeeming investors the option of receiving securities in-kind or ownership in the SPVs.

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But if the public option dies, some kind of health-care reform is more likely to survive.

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Any stealth game is a kind of real-time puzzle game with the option of brutal violence.

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Now Facebook and Twitter do offer that kind of secure service - but it's not the default option, so users have to switch it on if they want to be sure that their use of those sites is private when they are in a public wi-fi hotspot.

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