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Like Ginsu knives and the George Foreman grill, the Snuggie has become synonymous with direct-response advertising, the preferred industry parlance for commercials that feature a toll-free number for placing orders. And thanks to the recession, such "as seen on TV" companies are purchasing more airtime for chump change...
...restore security and maybe a little optimism to their sometimes hopeless lives. In exchange, they were willing to look past what many sensed was a values divide. The main appeal to the people of Ashtabula County was that electing Barack Obama would have a direct impact on their own lives...
...series of fora to address the issue. These initiatives, reported in both the Boston Globe and the Harvard Crimson were, amusingly, never reported in any of the research which evolved into a cottage industry, on what came to be known as the Boston Miracle. Yet there was a direct connection between the Harvard based initiatives and the subsequent organizing efforts of the late eighties that involved first white mainline Episcopal, Unitarian and United Church of Christ churches, and then the Black churches in the nineties in focusing upon the explosion of violence related to the crack epidemic...
...most isolated inner city neighborhoods. There are major structural barriers which retard the development of Black inner city communities: joblessness, social isolation, social decay and discrimination. But in addition to all this these communities are in the midst of a kulturekamph of Black-on-Black violence which is a direct result of the political crisis of fatherlessness. At the root of the instability of the Black ghettos is the fact that there is not a functional patrilineal system that governs the communal life by physically maintaining order as occurs in other working class neighborhoods, regardless of race or ethnicity. When...
...direct cause of ferry accidents is almost always human error and negligence, not geography or acts of God, officials say. Captains, prodded by fleet operators to keep on schedule and make money, repeatedly take risks ranging from filling aging vessels beyond safe capacity to setting sail in dangerous weather, according to maritime-industry regulators. In the Philippines, for example, ferry captains are required to submit a document called the Master Oath of Safety Departure (MOSD) - testifying that the vessel meets all requirements and disclosing the number of passengers on board - to the coast guard before every sailing. But "the shipping...