Put in time with each system, rather than giving up.

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Most towns and cities, rather than giving up on money-losing munis, will first try farming out management to private firms, hoping for a turnaround, or spruce up their courses to prevailing standards.

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The government playbook has also become pretty clear: by arresting traders like Martoma on a criminal complaint, rather than after an indictment, the prosecutor keeps control of the process, rather than giving up authority to the judge.

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Since tomorrow is January 1, I'm sure many people will be thinking about losing weight, so I thought this was a great time to answer your question to help people work through this challenging situation rather than giving up on their weight loss goals.

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But the biggest success has been due to people giving up smoking, rather than to new treatments.

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But unless Iraq's regime dramatically changes its behaviour and starts giving up its weapons rather than hiding them, France will soon have to choose whether or not to go along with tougher action.

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Rather, privatisation became little more than a convenient mechanism for raising large sums of cash without giving up control of the companies concerned.

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"On balance, it would be better to do this and face up to the possible difficulties of dealing with a hostile audience of cranks and fanatics rather than the alternative risk of leaving the field to the fanatics and giving the impression that we are afraid to stand up to questions, " concluded officials.

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