Whatever choice the task force recommends will be sent to the town's Board of Education.

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Whatever the specific task is we want to continually find ways of performing that task while using less human labour.

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We end up with both the first task completed and also whatever the output of that something else is.

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Since then, speculation regarding the nature of those measures has run rampant, but with the ability to print an unlimited supply of dollars, even the most skeptical observers have to admit that the Fed has an ordnance factory capable of producing whatever caliber is needed for the task at hand.

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Whatever the truth, there is an even bigger problem with the task force's approach.

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Whatever steps are taken, or probably not taken, the key task remains that set out in Ehud Yaari's January report, as he put it, "to minimise the risk of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty imploding under the pressures of the wild Sinai frontier".

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Now, just as there are those who have argued against intervention in Libya, there are others who have suggested that we broaden our military mission beyond the task of protecting the Libyan people, and do whatever it takes to bring down Qaddafi and usher in a new government.

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Whatever the extent of their restructuring so far, companies still face a big task cleaning up their balance sheets (eg, by selling assets and pulling out of unprofitable businesses) before they can start growing again.

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