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		<title><![CDATA[Depomed CEO Pelzel Discusses Serada's Cold Flush and Placebo Issues]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Depomed announced earlier this week that its investigational non-hormonal therapeutic option for the treatment of menopausal hot flashes, Serada (formerly known as DM-5689), failed to meet its primary efficacy endpoints in its two pivotal BREEZE clinical studies. In my opinion, this statement is somewhat misleading: it is not so much...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:01:04 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Allstate Corporation Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of David Lewis - Raymond James & Associates David Lewis - Raymond James & Associates Couple of questions on claim severity and frequency, first on the auto side you indicated that the comps were going to be...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 09:53:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SunTrust Bank, Inc. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first call comes from Brian Foran &#8211; Goldman Sachs.  Brian Foran &#8211; Goldman Sachs I'm trying to think about your ability to earn your way through this cycle, and I think about it in two ways; first just implicitly the reserve to MPA...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:06:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Centex F3Q09 (Qtr End 12/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator At this time we will begin taking questions. Operator Instructions. Thank you. Our first question comes from Ivy Zelman from Zelman & Associates. Your line is open. Ivy Zelman - Zelman & Associates Hi, good morning everyone, thank you. Timothy Eller Hi Ivy. Cathy Smith Good morning....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:39:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Thornburg Mortgage, Inc. The Wall Street Analyst Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionClay Simmons Yes, sir. Unidentified Audience Member What are you seeing your lost severity on delinquent mortgages or do you have some sort of assumptions that that you've put in for loss severity? Clay Simmons And the question is, what kind of loss severity assumptions do we use...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:13:12 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Radian Group Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator  Thank you. Operator instructions And our first question comes from Howard Shapiro with Fox-Pitt. Please go ahead. Howard Shapiro &#8211; Fox-Pitt  Hi. Thank you very much. Just a couple of questions, you published, I think, three risks to capital ratios. I&#8217;m just wondering which one...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:34:17 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pest Problems Abroad May Affect Compliance With U.S. Safeguards]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ninety-five percent of Mediterranean fruit fly medfly outbreaks in the continental United States since 1929 have occurred in Florida and California. USDA, along with California's and Florida's departments of agriculture, use preventive release programs to reduce the severity and frequency of outbreaks. Millions of sterile male fruit flies are released...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Donegal Group Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator  Operator Instructions  Your first question comes from Michael Phillips - Stifel Nicolaus.  Michael Phillips - Stifel Nicolaus  Jeff, you mentioned seeing the severity pick up in comp and auto. Could you speak to the magnitude of that? Jeffrey D. Miller  The magnitude...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:24:08 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Severity Level of Information Security Breaches on the Rise, CompTIA Survey Shows]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_Sept_18/ai_n27376732]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. -- The severity level of information security breaches experienced by organizations has show a marked increase over the past year, according to research commissioned by the Computing Technology Industry Association CompTIA.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The "desert" model for sentencing: its influence, prospects, and alternatives]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2267/is_2_74/ai_n27366140]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[INTRODUCTION  THE DECLINE OF THE REHABILITATIVE ETHOS IN SENTENCING THEORY in the post-1960s is a story that has been told often (see, for example, Allen, 1981) and need not be rehearsed here. * Penal treatment programs, once tested for their effectiveness, showed scant success--or at most, succeeded only in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[System monitors health of composite military missiles.(TESTING/CHARACTERIZATION)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5260/is_200706/ai_n20371901]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A monitoring system in which a mathematical model pinpoints the  location and severity of impacts on composite missile casings based on  vibration data collected by a sensor called a triaxial accelerometer has  reportedly been developed at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. The  casings are made out...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Drought uncovers Australia's drowned town]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200704/ai_n19004561]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ADAMINABY, Australia AFP &#8212; Australia's worst drought in a century has uncovered a town deliberately flooded 50 years ago as part of a massive hydro-electricity scheme, stirring painful memories for former residents.  Adaminaby, a small farming town nestled in the Snowy Mountains on the border between New South Wales...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Business spending cuts trim expansion.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200612/ai_n17467068]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Alexander Symonds    Dec 06, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) --  There is speculation that the severity of Australia's skills  shortage will continue to impair economic growth.  Companies such as BHP  Billiton are struggling to find skilled staff for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Claims severity increases: Study; Tort reforms impact claims frequency.(News)(Brief article)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5252/is_200610/ai_n20180020]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: DAVE LENCKUS    While the frequency of hospital medical malpractice liability  claims has stabilized, the severity of claims continues to grow, though  at a slower rate, according to a study by Aon Risk Consultants, a unit  of Chicago-based Aon   Byline: DAVE LENCKUS...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[General Practitioners' Self-Perceived Ability to Recognize Severity of Common Mental Disorders: An Underestimated Factor in Case Identification?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=259409]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Several studies have shown that General Practitioners GPs under-diagnose common mental disorders, and that training courses hardly improve this practice. The influence of GPs' self-perceived ability to recognize the severity of such disorders on these facts has not been investigated. The study presented in this paper explores GPs' perceived ability...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Adler loses appeal over sentence.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200605/ai_n17511946]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[May 18, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The  New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal has rejected an application by  Rodney Adler against the severity of his jail sentence.  The Sydney  businessman was jailed for a maximum of four and a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cooper defends death rate for bypass]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmtpi/is_200603/ai_n16097283]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Heart bypass patients at Cooper University Hospital in Camden were more than twice as likely to die in 2003 as those at the average New Jersey hospital, according to a state analysis of heart surgery.  But Cooper's head of cardiac services said the report, issued yesterday by the New...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Canadian cyclist Genevieve Jeanson banned for life]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200601/ai_n16013793]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[MONTREAL AFP &#8212; Canadian cyclist Genevieve Jeanson has reportedly been banned for life by USA Cycling after testing positive for blood-booster EPO.  Jeanson failed the test last July at the prologue of a stage race in Pennsylvania which she won.  The severity of the punishment reported by Quebec...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Registration of 'Masami' wheat.(REGISTRATIONS OF CULTIVARS)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6382/is_200601/ai_n25545359]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA['Masami' soft white winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)  (Reg. no. CV-977, PI 634715) was developed by the Agricultural Research  Center of Washington State University WSU in cooperation with the  USDA-ARS. Masami was jointly released by Washington and Idaho  Agricultural Experiment Stations and the USDA-ARS in 2004....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Modifier gene makes some hearing loss more severe.(Brief Article)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4337/is_200505/ai_n15164515]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have identified a genetic mutation in humans that  affects the severity of hearing loss caused by a mutation of another  gene. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders  scientists Julie Schultz and Andrew Griffith and co-authors at the  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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