Word: latter
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...rise of nonbank competitors. The barely regulated shadow-banking system of securitization, investment banks and hedge funds took lots of business away from banks. Banks responded by relying more on fee income to pay the bills, getting in on shadow banking themselves and offering easier terms on loans - the latter two with sometimes disastrous results...
Warner Bros. opted for the latter - sort of. It replaced the 1,100 posters in its Métro campaign with alternative ones showing Tautou as Chanel sans tabac. The original ads won't go to waste - they have been deployed as planned beyond the confines of the Métro. But in refusing to alter its depiction of Chanel wielding one of her beloved cigarettes, Warner Bros. rejected a revisionist compromise that others have been forced to make...
...wrote that Bradbury's conclusions, based on CIA recommendations, were significantly flawed. "Prolonged stress with sleep deprivation will lead to a physiological exhaustion of the body's defense mechanisms, physical collapse, and with the potential for various ensuing illnesses," Horne wrote. "We don't know at what point this latter phase would be reached with 'coercive techniques,' but to claim that 180 hours is safe in these respects is nonsense...
...internal clocks of two groups of neurons deep in the brain. One group is associated with deep sleep, which results from fatigue; the other is linked with rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep. Although the first group of neurons can be reset in a few days, the latter can take up to a week to catch up - so, one part of the brain thinks its in Paris, while the other insists it's still in New York. The result is you lying wide awake in your hotel room...
...They fully expected that he would overturn the so-called Mexico City policy restricting family-planning funding overseas, reverse George W. Bush's ban on federal funding for embryonic-stem-cell research and move to rescind a last-minute Bush Administration "conscience clause" rule for medical providers, the latter of which he will probably do as early as next week. But they also presumed Obama would handle and communicate these weighty decisions with a delicate touch, and in that respect, the President has disappointed the crucial voting bloc. It's something Obama can ill afford, especially at time when...