If no new leader of the PA has been elected within 60 days of the old one stepping down, the parliamentary speaker becomes president until an election is held.

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If Israel had not empowered the Quartet generally and the US specifically to determine whether the PA and Israel are behaving properly, a European or Russian decision to recognize Hamas would have little impact.

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For every 1, 000 patients given rt-PA within three hours of stroke, 80 more will survive and live without help from others than if they had not been given the drug, according to the research.

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But an owner could potentially create a spinoff entity if his or her business has more than one revenue stream, and if there are different owners for each entity, says Peter Fleming, a partner with Carnegie, Pa.

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