The back-combing and gluing of the feathers seems very similar to the two dead birds we have previously recovered and had samples returned for.

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It's not like merging two banks, eliminating half the branches, combing the back offices and keeping all the customers.

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He has instituted a regulatory look-back that is unprecedented and has his administration combing through the regulations of the past, eliminating those that are no longer worth enforcing and rewriting those that can be made more efficient for American business to grow.

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