Doctors and nurses who have fled bombed hospitals have set up temporary field hospitals and mobile clinics.

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In the same way, covert operations officers who are serving in the field, when they rotate back for temporary assignment in Washington, they too are still covert.

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At one of this year's football games, dozens of Houstonians protested in front of the field as Miss Ward (protected by temporary federal court injunctions) said her prayer, inciting the home crowd to cheer her even more enthusiastically.

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Browne was no doubt referring to last year's temporary closure of some operations at the Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska, delays to the opening of BP's Thunder Horse platform in the Gulf of Mexico, and problems stemming from the 2005 explosion at a Texas refinery that killed 15 BP employees.

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