Tilly, who would have been a little larger than a baked bean at birth, needed bottle feeding special milk and vitamin supplements around the clock when she was first found.

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However you interpret the data, the fact remains that the longer we continue to form our opinions on health care policy based on ideology and the care and feeding of special interests, the longer it will take to come up with a system that can actually work for all Americans.

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Tax bills have become feeding frenzies for special interests, as well as a way for pols to try to buy votes through manufacturing ever more tax credits.

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Apple sent out invitations to a special event on Oct. 23 feeding speculation CEO Tim Cook will finally introduce a smaller-screen version of the popular iPad tablet and make it available in time for the holiday shopping season.

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Until now, Viewpoint's strategy has been to place itself at the bottom of the feeding chain: film studios and special-effects houses customise its models before Steven Spielberg and his ilk weave them into their story lines.

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Pushing it through entailed resorting to all the sharp practices he had vowed solemnly to expunge: appeasing special interests, such as the hospitals and the pharmaceuticals industry, and feeding pork to wavering allies.

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