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  • P: rivate insurance looks to the bottom line for profits and the needs of the patient may not fit the bottom line.

    Democrats fear Obama health plan 'on the rocks' 2009

  • P rivate consumption is expected to fall 2.7% this year, while unemployment should surpass the current 10.9% rate.

    Portugal's Growth Slows as Recession Looms Patricia Kowsmann 2011

  • "Equity markets are bouncing from oversold territory and I think it will continue," said Macquarie P rivate Wealth Division Director Martin Lakos in Sydney.

    Most Asia Stocks, Currencies Rise 2010

  • It used to be an old five-story, French-styled p rivate home, now redesigned by Autoban.

    The Empire Strikes Back Suzy Hansen 2010

  • Characterizing relations between ___________ rivate security contractors

    David Isenberg: The GAO Transcripts, Part 20: When PSC Cause "Mission Creep" 2010

  • [P] rivate companies such as CMS feel no responsibility, and have no legal obligation, to account to the public for what goes on inside their facilities.

    Archive 2004-05-01 David 2004

  • [P] rivate companies such as CMS feel no responsibility, and have no legal obligation, to account to the public for what goes on inside their facilities.

    Billings Blog David 2004

  • The Free Speech Clause also prohibits the Government from singling out religious expression for disfavored treatment: "[P] rivate religious speech, far from being a First Amendment orphan, is as fully protected under the Free Speech Clause as secular private expression,"

    Guidelines On Religious Expression In The Workplace ITY National Archives 1997

  • They welcomed the increased flow of private money but noted that it goes only to some countries, rivate investment that does not create more debt would play an important part in development, they said, but piled-up debt and mountains of interest are their major worries.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • It was an incident that was hushed up in the best p rivate school tradition; it was remarkable, really, how a school as unsophisticated as the Dairy School could at times imitate exactly the decorum of silence in dealing with distasteful matters that the more sophisticated schools had learned like a science.

    The Hotel New Hampshire Irving, John, 1942- 1981

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