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...almost certain that the search will go on. A possible replacement: WILLIAM DONALDSON, the former investment banker who, after a sluggish start as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, is beginning to win praise for steering the agency into more aggressive scrutiny of slippery business practices. A Donaldson drawback: he has alienated some Republicans with his calls to increase government regulation of the financial industry...
...there’s any drawback to Princeton’s program, it may be that [because of the rigor] you miss out on some of the culture,” McKiernan said. “Any interaction you can have with the people, especially the rural people who have not had much interaction with Americans, much less foreigners, is very beneficial...
Pasquarello said the callboxes will make responding to emergencies easier but pointed to the false alarms that other callboxes garner as a potential drawback...
...reasons, the arguments against the spread-out design of U.S. cities and suburbs have been getting louder in recent years. Anybody stuck two hours in commuter traffic can tell you some of those reasons. But researchers have begun to recognize a previously unsuspected drawback to the way the U.S. is constructed. What they have found is a connection between sprawling suburbs and spreading waistlines. Very simply, people who live in communities where it's hard to get anywhere on foot are heavier than those who live in less car-dependent settings, whether densely settled cities like Boston and Chicago...
...most important news, at least to me, is that "The Amazing Race" - the best reality show on TV and perhaps the most perfect competition ever devised by man - is returning to the fall schedule, Saturday nights at 9 p.m. (The drawback: it was planned to run this summer, but they may hold the summer season for September.) On the flip side, for all you fans of "Yes, Dear" - the ratings tell me you actually do exist - the sitcom is off the fall schedule; CBS has ordered 13 episodes as a midseason replacement...