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...reorganization is twofold. "It will divide the present rather numerous commitments of the Glee Club, performing both alone and with the Choral Society, between the various choruses," Forbes said. "The smaller group will also be more manageable for the presentation of difficult, little-known works, while the larger choruses will create the opportunity for singers who want traditional classics," he said...
...defects of the present system are twofold: in the way it actually works and in its theoretical basis...
...Shah's problems with the U.S. are twofold. For one thing, Washington refuses to support his claim that the entire Persian Gulf-including the oil-rich island of Bahrain, an independent sheikdom that is one of the U.S.'s few remaining friends in the Arab world-belongs to Iran. For another, the British-American Consortium that operates Iran's own enormous oilfields refuses to bow to his demands to double production (now a record 130 million tons a year) in the next five years to finance his national-development program. The Shah is not at all impressed...
...separate category, Dr. Danhof put patients who suffer from flatulent diarrhea because of a deficiency in enzymes that digest ordinary table sugar. The remedy is twofold: enzyme supplements and restriction of sugar in food and drink. Finally, some people have a so-called intestinal allergy to some specific foods, such as chocolate or strawberries, or even milk. In such cases, the remedy is the simplest of all-don't eat or drink them...
...purpose of the London new towns was twofold. They were supposed to alleviate the post-World War II housing shortage and to mitigate industrial concentration in London. But the London ring achieved neither of these purposes. The development of the towns was retarded by so many battles between different levels of government and local interest groups that most of them took ten years to get off the ground. Moreover, while some London industry moved out to the new towns, other companies just replaced them...