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The biomedical agencies in Kennedy’s sights are just a small sliver of the huge HHS budget, more than 90% of which goes to mandatory programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, and Affordable Care Act programs.

Facing his old team could provide a sliver of extra motivation for a player who already seems like a man on a mission.

McDonald's said in a statement that it "identified an alternate supplier" for about 900 restaurants that had "temporarily stopped serving Quarter Pounder burgers with slivered onions".

In Italian cuisine, it’s called piccata, which refers to a thin sliver of meat.

Like the sliver of sandwiched Chinese territory she has travelled to see, Beijing too is caught between its sanctioned neighbours.