Word: centralization
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...olds who were not graduating. The teenagers completed questionnaires about the severity of their acne as well as how much anxiety and depression they were experiencing, what they usually ate and whether they smoked and drank. Separately, the researchers collected socioeconomic data on the teens from the country's central information-gathering agency, Statistics Norway...
...coach Sue Caples to shift personnel. With Keating’s flexible skill set, she was a reasonable gamble on the offensive end.“I’ve never really considered myself a forward, because I’ve always had midfield tendencies…being more central and not being as offensively motivated,” Keating reflects. “But I’ve always liked using stick skills and shooting the ball, so I think it was a smart transition to put me up there.”Although the idea came...
...been going strong for more than a decade. Spearheaded by founder and executive director Jay Calderin, the event aspires to recreate the buzz of similar productions in New York while eschewing the unwelcoming exclusivity. “The local designers and fashion community didn’t have a central voice.... The whole Bryant Park thing was fairly new,” he says, referring to the host location of the twice-annual New York Fashion Week, “[And] I thought, ‘Let’s do something similar, except for a Boston audience...
...expansion into former Soviet-bloc countries. Soon after taking office, Obama reportedly wrote a private letter to Medvedev suggesting that the missile shield would become unnecessary were Russia to help the U.S. prevent Iran from developing into a nuclear threat. The Russians also made the missile shield a central issue in negotiations with Washington over a new arms-control deal to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. That treaty expires in December, and Obama has made putting a new treaty in place by then a priority of his Russia policy. (Read "Anders Fogh Rasmussen: The Reformer...
...Taliban win is not necessarily inevitable. Non-Pashtuns like the Tajiks, Hazaras and other minorities are certainly resisting a return of the Taliban; the parts of the country that they dominate, including sections of central and northern Afghanistan, are relatively peaceful. Also, while American and European casualties may be rising - 810 U.S. servicemen have died so far in the eight-year conflict - so has the number of Taliban deaths. Dozens of Taliban are killed every week...