Under company procedure, according to current and former employees, a team in India identifies potential sites for new stores and presents them to a real-estate committee for the country, several people familiar with the company's practice said.

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"This procedure is in no way incompatible with the current functions of the managing director of the IMF, " he said.

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In clinical medicine, a new procedure or medication is tested and compared to current practice in a proper clinical trial.

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The capital intensive setup and expensive drilling procedure leaves very low margins for the drilling companies at the current natural gas rates.

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This method has the potential to be more exact than current methods and to be done as an outpatient procedure replacing intensive surgery.

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Sunder Katwala's proposal is even worse than the current inheritance tax as it introduces a highly bureaucratic administrative procedure to monitor and control what we do with our wealth while we are alive.

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In 1991, when Second Sight's Dr. Greenberg was still in medical training at Johns Hopkins University, he watched a retinal surgeon perform a procedure where he placed a wire in a patient's eye and ran a bit of electrical current through it, and the patient saw a spot of light.

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