Last year in North Carolina, over one-third of the civil cases were collection actions.

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What it amounts to is a collection of newspaper articles, items off the internet, concerning cases going back as far as 1998.

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But diagnosis, management and treatment of the more complicated cases or assiduous epidemiological data collection might not be such money-spinners.

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Police hope the collection of thousands of new samples could help to solve so-called cold-cases, where a new sample is linked to a past crime.

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And, after you work out these functions and the functions governing these functions, you have to run a potentially enormous number of cases through these functions to determine which collection start dates for which benefits will produce the highest lifetime income from Social Security.

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The Syrian and Iraqi cases also show that political courage and intellectual honesty are the keys to intelligence collection and analysis regarding weapons of mass destruction programs.

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