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assuring that all Angelenos know that the promises we made are good," he said. But the dispute has prompted other council members to parse their words carefully. "I think the dialogue is healthy and will motivate the council and mayor to work together," said Councilman Ed Reyes . The Anticline has more than 800 wells, she said. The Environmental Protection Agency's regional administrator, Robert E . military officials said Friday that they could not confirm what Assaf and other Iraqis said was a catastrophic communications mix-up that led U. S . One such finding, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1994, compared sugar and the artificial sweetener aspartame -- both of which had been reported to cause hyperactivity and other behavioral problems. Researchers tested two groups of children: 25 normal preschoolers, 3 to 5 years old, and 23 school-age children, 6 to 10 years old, who were described by their parents as sugar-sensitive. Each of the children followed three different diets for three weeks each One was high in sugar but had no artificial sweeteners A second was low in sugar and used aspartame as a sweetener . The result might be that some corporate tenants turn their favor to South Bay beach towns where no such restrictions exist, but local real estate agents aren't worried.

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