Although most of our patients received a cemented revision prosthesis fixated with antibiotic-loaded bone cement, the patients with an uncemented prosthesis did not appear to do worse, so no hard and fast statements can be made regarding the potential additional value of local antibiotics.
"He cannot come out with a hard-and-fast statement because of the vagaries of the financial situation," adding, "He's not a fortune teller".
In contrast, a couple of days later Broadcom came out with a similar fast Ethernet statement, but this time they had a group of their customers, including all the big router and networking companies, endorse it.
Interestingly, 'hit hard, hit fast' – the statement originally adopted by Paul Ehrlich in 1913 to emphasize the importance of taking strong, early action against parasitic infections [ 34] – remains the strategy of choice with concentration-dependent agents, such as fluoroquinolones and aminoglycosides.
Areas evaluated pertained to risks to diabetes patients during fasting (seven statements); patient risk stratification (twelve statements); recommendations for referral and evaluation (twenty nine statements); drug dosing adjustment (three statements); and safety parameters for prematurely breaking the fast (two statements).
He favoured fast, incisive statements of densely-packed runs, often ending in brusquely dissonant squalls or prolonged warbles, as if he were gargling with pebbles.
"The climbers believe that the lead Sherpa felt that his pride had been damaged as the climbers were moving unroped and much faster," the statement added.
Those hard and fast public statements seemed privately unsupported to too many members.
Among the strengths that Mr. Brown had shown was a fast and sober statement after botched terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow days after he took over as prime minister in late June; swift attention to devastating floods in the English countryside this summer, and firm stewardship during a foot-and-mouth crisis in the cattle industry.
He knew he really stepped in it - because he couldn't retreat from that statement fast enough.
