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...report, which was issued by Zero to Three, a nonprofit child development organization, in conjunction with the nonprofit Civitas, and Brio, the toy maker, is based on interviews with 3,000 adults, including 1,066 parents of children under the age of six. Sixty-one percent of all respondents felt regular spanking was an acceptable form of punishment. Even more surprising, thirty-seven percent of parents of young children believe it?s acceptable to spank children younger than two. And as a corollary befitting the old adage "spare the rod, spoil the child," fifty-six percent believe a 6-month...
Bush argued that he would change the tone of Washington through his leadership and make both parties work together, which he said has not happened during the Clinton-Gore administration. He bragged about his reputation in Texas governing circles as a bipartisan consensus-maker...
...NASDAQ has been in a serious funk, shedding nearly 400 points, more than 10 percent of its value, until suddenly a sliver of sun peeked out on Wednesday. Some credited Oracle, which lifted the index after some good news for the software maker. Others pointed to the day, the third day of the quarter, in which portfolio managers supposedly come out of their meetings and dump some investment money on the table. But for most, it seemed this cute little rally was like a flower pushing up through the tundra - not a full-blown spring yet, but hopefully a sign...
...pointed out quickly that it wasn't just Khorkina in tatters and tears, it was the entire Russian team. Everything was upside down in the land Down Under: Americans were 0-3 in softball, and Russians were falling off gym equipment. Leonid Arkaev, the Russian head coach and maker of champions since 1968, was flabbergasted. "I don't know how to prepare for failure, it's never happened to me," he said before the competition started. Indeed, Russian gymnastic teams hadn't gone home without at least one championship in 40 years...
Credit card companies in particular have latched on to the student market, with the knowledge that they could be creating lifelong customers. ASL documents filed with the SEC show that credit-card companies represent the bulk of the list-maker's business...