Word: programs
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...site's habit of serving up unlicensed doctors and illegal pharmacies in response to medical queries on its engine. It turned out those were Baidu advertisers. The disclosures hit directly at the site's integrity and temporarily crushed the stock. Baidu has only just finished rolling out a new program that will delineate paid results from general searches, but that remedy has taken more time than some analysts expected. And recently two senior executives - the chief operating officer and the chief technology executive - resigned for "personal reasons." (A Baidu spokesperson says those reasons had nothing to do with performance...
While working on the program, Gates learned that television personality and cardiothoracic surgeon Mehmet C. Oz ’82, who is Muslim, and Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony-award winning director Michael I. Nichols, who is Jewish, have a common ancestor...
...global economic system. That trend wasn't created by the crisis, but the crisis certainly accelerated it. As the U.S., Europe and Japan contracted sharply, China registered its own brief, if scary, dip and then proceeded to use its trillions in foreign reserves to undertake a massive spending program. More effective than similar stimulus packages in the United States and elsewhere, the approach by the Chinese government not only halted the swoon but propelled China to even more robust growth...
...coupons are a part of the World Food Program distribution plan aimed at women and children. Theoretically, the program disseminates coupons to Haitian community leaders who then are supposed to give them out to the women of that community. But they are quickly becoming a commodity. The women tell me of places where I can go to find the men selling the cartes: the stadium, the gas station on the corner, all places where you go to meet the right people. It's clear relief has come hand in hand with Haiti's age-old, seemingly death-defying corruption...
China lent Tai Shan's and Mei Lan's parents to U.S. zoos for conservation and breeding. The young pandas will become part of a breeding program in their endangered species' native land. About 1,600 giant pandas live in the wild, and another 290 are in captive-breeding programs worldwide, mainly in China...