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Responding to criticism that the organization hasn't done enough to protect the show's performers, Wyman said Equity members "have insisted on further safety protocols, backups, fail-safes, redundancies."
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Responding to criticism that the organization hasn't done enough to protect the show's performers, Wyman said Equity members "have insisted on further safety protocols, backups, fail-safes, redundancies."
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"It's got lots of fail-safes and mechanisms in it," said Donna H. Ryan of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge.
Weight-loss drug withdrawal latest blow to obesity fight Rob Stein 2010
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"It's got lots of fail-safes and mechanisms in it," said Donna H. Ryan of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge.
In long quest for diet drug, another setback for obese Rob Stein 2010
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"It's got lots of fail-safes and mechanisms in it," said Donna H. Ryan of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge.
Weight-loss drug withdrawal latest blow to obesity fight Rob Stein 2010
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But obviously, this level of oil safety fail-safes is totally socialist, right?
Oil Spill Response: If Relief Well Drilling Is Only Guaranteed Option, Why Not Make It Mandatory? 2010
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It is an amusing idea, but there are fail-safes at trading houses and exchanges that would flag such a mistake.
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It is an amusing idea, but there are fail-safes at trading houses and exchanges that would flag such a mistake.
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Our Founders, in the opening decades of our national life, built into our governing fundamentals many redundancies -- fail-safes -- to protect us from tyranny, either of the creeping or of the sudden kind.
Tony Blankley: Lincoln or Kagan: Our Rights Have Deeper Roots Than the Constitution 2010
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Our Founders, in the opening decades of our national life, built into our governing fundamentals many redundancies -- fail-safes -- to protect us from tyranny, either of the creeping or of the sudden kind.
Tony Blankley: Lincoln or Kagan: Our Rights Have Deeper Roots Than the Constitution 2010
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