In addition, 81 percent of surgery patients had impotence problems compared with 44 percent in the observation group.

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For someone like me who wants to work on larger system problems, residency is an exercise in impotence.

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In a county with high unemployment and low wages, the impotence of local government in the face of such problems might gradually prove to be the undoing of the Liberal Democrats.

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