Word: controll
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...Controversy. McNally steals the ball, but doesn't look to have control, and ball goes out off him. The referees rule that it was a steal, giving Princeton a BIG break to run more time off because this ruling resets the shot clock. Tough...
...becoming increasingly useless. In and out of China, pictures and live video feeds from cell phones were swiftly circulated, as well as Twitter updates and Google Maps photos. They even made it to the Huffington Post, where people worldwide speculated as to how the government would try to control it—the media, not the fire...
...change in the human-rights arena around the Olympics were thwarted last year, the CCTV complex fire shows that the current government grip on dissent and free information will become, sooner or later, unsustainable. No matter how they spin it, it was not possible for the government to control the imagery around the tragedy; everyone with access to the Internet could see the skyscraper burn. Perhaps more importantly, within China it was obvious that the elite employees of CCTV tried to get away with circumventing laws forbidding the use of fireworks in the complex. In more ways than...
...Gallup poll, about 11 percent of Americans still think that global warming “will never happen.” (Within the scientific community, this statistic is only three percent.) Perhaps most disturbingly, the study reports that 13 percent of Americans believe that no further climate control measures are necessary—in other words, that we as a society should take no action to further reduce carbon emissions or attempt to combat global warming...
...Congress has regularly tried to bring the doctrine back ever since. Reagan and George H.W. Bush both quashed Congressional initiatives by threatening vetoes, and a 2005 attempt to reinstate the doctrine didn't make it out of committee. Now, with Democrats in control of Congress and the White House and with conservative talk radio hosts - long a thorn in liberal sides - taking to the airwaves to blast President Obama's stimulus package, interest in the Fairness Doctrine is peaking once again...