Clarot gave her the impression that he had not heard of the studies and indicated that Matrixx had not done any studies of its own but had hired a consultant to review the product.

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Richard Lynch, executive director of the Foundation for Fiduciary Studies, said if pension funds are confident their consultant is doing the best job it can, they should welcome a free independent investigation.

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His death is "a terrible blow for the (reformist) green movement and everybody who has been active these past few months, " said Mehrdad Khonsari, a senior research consultant at the Centre for Arab and Iranian Studies in London.

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As a consultant, two of my more memorable jobs were conducting economic impact studies for the Red River Rivalry between Oklahoma and Texas on 2 separate occasions over the last 8 years.

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Yet press stories, studies, papers, briefs, reports, employer questionnaires, consultant presentations, surveys, op-eds, interviews, quotes, and comments from other prominent Democrats have started to pile up detailing the real possibility that many companies will potentially drop coverage.

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Peter Hill, a consultant child psychiatrist, says that some patients wait 18 months for therapeutic help despite studies in America which show that behavioural therapy can work, on its own or combined with low doses of drugs.

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