Word: rareness
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...Picard, in his late 60s, is a rare bird in the quiet world of bankruptcy trustees, a blend of a traditional Chapter 7 bankruptcy panel trustee (of which there are 1,200 in the U.S.) and Securities Investment Protection Act (SIPA) trustee...
...opioid receptors, where drugs like heroin and narcotic painkillers bind. According to Daliah Heller, an assistant commissioner of the New York City Department of Health, who is involved with the city's naloxone program, serious side effects from the drug (aside from triggering withdrawal symptoms in addicts) are extremely rare. But they're not unheard of: in rare instances, high doses of naloxone have caused seizures, but, says Heller, "It's much more deadly for [overdose victims] not to have the naloxone...
...rare hot-button rulings, seven years ago Sotomayor decided against an abortion-rights group that attempted to challenge the federal ban - since lifted by President Obama - on funding international family-planning groups that provide abortions. Writing to uphold a lower-court decision that threw out the case, Sotomayor said, "The Supreme Court has made clear that the government is free to favor the antiabortion position over the pro-choice position, and can do so with public funds." But that case didn't require Sotomayor to comment on the fundamental premise of Roe v. Wade - that the Constitution provides a right...
...over here - certainly an original Marceau merits another bid!" prodded auctioneer Rodolphe Tessier as he stoked the bidding on Marceau's painting The Audience Observing from a reserve price of €800 ($1,080) toward its final sale at €11,000 ($14,850). "Estimating the value of such rare objects as these is impossible - it's the bidding that will determine the price...
...While international human rights groups have said the rioting, in which at least 19 died, was a predictable response to the repression many Tibetans experience under Chinese rule, domestic criticism of the government on the politically charged subject of Tibet is rare in China...