Under that law the U.S. Coast Guard has assigned responsibility to BP and Transocean, but a state-court jury, if it were allowed to hear the case, might say Halliburton is liable, too.

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In September, a three-year agreement was reached giving the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the non-profit body formed in 1998 and assigned oversight responsibility on behalf of the U.S., greater autonomy.

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During that era, most patients paid in cash or with a personal check, and I was assigned the responsibility of putting the money in the safe and locking both the safe and the building after the last patient left the clinic.

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