Word: claime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...markets open to the world before their financial markets are ready, and Washington is less likely to view the main purpose of economic diplomacy as making the world safe for hedge funds. Above all, the crisis has reinforced democratic tendencies and made it much harder for paternalistic strongmen to claim they know best...
...well does it work? Scientific Learning's studies of 1,000 users claim that 90% of them gained an average of 1.5 years to two years in such skills as following directions and understanding complex sentences. But the company does not yet know why some children benefit more than others, or why some may not benefit at all. "There is no silver bullet," warns Reid Lyon, the head of child development and behavior studies at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which is conducting a five-year study of Fast ForWord and other remediation programs...
...Street, Frankel heard about a troubled Tennessee insurance company, Franklin American Life. In 1991, with money remaining from his derelict investment funds and a few dubious letters of credit, he founded Thunor Trust as a vehicle to take over Franklin. Thunor was run by two Nashville businessmen, who also claim to be victims. Frankel then used Franklin American's assets to purchase at least 10 other insurance companies throughout the South and Midwest. Laxly regulated insurance companies such as Franklin American, which mostly sold burial policies, are perfect targets for scam artists: they collect regular cash premiums that are supposed...
Indeed, it can't be. The big mining companies--which the opal miners hate, along with the government and the cops and the tourists--have never devised a profitable means of detecting or extracting opals. It's handwork. You just stake a claim and start digging. Sounds simple, but the trouble is that none of the conventional geological spotting techniques apply. Opals don't react chemically with the stone matrix around them, and they don't leave the "traces" that gold or diamonds do. So it is a matter of digging and digging and digging. One spot is as good...
...kids have taken note of this disregard, and if there's a lesson for parents in the Nickelodeon/TIME poll, it's tune in to your kids and show them some respect. While the majority of parents in the study claim to have great respect for kids, only 31% of kids feel that adults actually do respect them "a lot." This "respect gap" is even more glaring among kids in the 12- to 14 age group: 27% said they get little respect from adults or none...