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...This recession was online advertising's big test. The internet, which is the most efficient medium, was supposed to outperform all of the others when budgets shrank. The oldest media businesses were supposed to perform worse with each downturn in the economy. The common assumption was that, over time, online advertising would eventually get 20% of all marketing dollars spent...
...problem in youth sports being thrown onto the adults involved. While many problems do arise from overzealous coaches and parents who let ideas of grandeur make them ruthless, if we must exculpate the players from this sort of negative event, how can we ever credit them when they perform admirably? If we are to honor players for their good sportsmanship, we must be willing to cast them in a negative light when they exhibit none...
...world, science has the ability to someday reveal hitherto unfamiliar regions of metaphysics. Consider, for example, the explosion in understanding of the cell, the fundamental unit of life. The expanding field of systems biology elucidates breathtaking networks of interactions, as thousands upon thousands of molecules are precisely regulated to perform the simplest of functions. Metaphysically, many explanations could exist for the arguably beautiful nature of these networks...
...awards bonuses to managers individually based on value added to the endowment above specified market benchmarks; it subjects bonuses to a “claw-back provision” that allows the University to take back the bonuses if funds perform below these market benchmarks at later dates...
...layman's terms - in the armor are actually defective. The IG focused on "first article testing," by which any design flaws are spotted and rectified during the manufacturing process. Such testing is meant to confirm that a product meets Army specifications. The audit says the Army didn't perform or score the tests consistently. As a result, the audit report says, "we believe that three of the eight ballistic-insert designs that passed first article testing actually failed." (See pictures of U.S. troops' 5 years in Iraq...