People will be sloughed off failing businesses and attracted to new opportunities with upside potential.

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Common problems include overactive oil glands, bacteria growth within follicles and pores and problems with the keratinization process, where cells are normally sloughed off the skin, pushed out of the hair follicle and replaced by new cells.

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But he put off a lot of businessmen, many of whom switched to Costas Simitis and the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) at the general election last September, because Mr Simitis genuinely seemed to have sloughed off the profligate economics and cheap populism of his late predecessor, Andreas Papandreou.

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"A lot more untoward behavior towards kids is recast as a serious felony when maybe in the past it would be sloughed off as, 'There goes that crazy uncle again, ' or variations on that theme, " said Douglas Berman, a professor at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law who specializes in criminal sentencing.

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