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...bottom of the barrel attempts to confuse voters,” emphasizing that all data used by her group is documented by records and photos taken by the tracks themselves. She said she believed the 2008 campaign would be successful because of the improved availability of data and the gradual phase-out of racing. The proposed ban that was on the ballot in 2000 would have banned racing immediately. “The dog track owners will say whatever sounds good to defend their business; I will say what I believe which is to help dogs,” Dorchak...
...entirely pessimistic. Experts and industry insiders believe that once the storm blows over, demand is bound to rise for the same reasons it did last time - a large, young workforce; gradual but consistent liberalization reforms; and a high rate of consumer and private-sector savings. "The silver lining is that once this phase ends, land and property prices will be corrected to rational levels, speculators will be out, and the sector will have stronger fundamentals," says Shukla. If everyone's prayers go right, the goddess will eventually be propitiated and her blessings will issue forth once more...
...study, published in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet, found that complete gradual cessation of these risk factors by 2033 could save 26 million lives from COPD and over 6 million from lung cancer...
...will fall to Odierno to oversee the implementation of the new agreement and the gradual drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq as they hand over control to Iraqi security forces. "This struggle is theirs to win," Odierno said. But doubts remain as to whether they can. Odierno's No. 2, Lieut. General Lloyd Austin, said on Monday that he wasn't "sure that pushing [Iraqi security forces] forward is the right thing that we want...
...other ways, though, Etown feels like a throwback to a time when musicians played with a social conscience and music could effect political change. But what's clear is that show's gradual success mirrors the growth of environmental thinking nationally in the U.S. - a process that might reach a peak at the Democratic Convention, where energy and the environment will be higher on the political agenda than ever before. Ultimately, whether or not delegates offset their carbon emissions or bike around Denver in the August heat will matter less than whether 2008 marks the moment that environmentalism truly enters...