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...instructors have greatly benefited from the attention focused on the routine in the past few months, problems have also arisen in the industry. As any Ec 10 student knows, with a leap in demand comes a concurrent leap in supply, and the suppliers are in a bit of a quarrel. John Gallagher, a physical therapist and businessman, trademarked the Pilates name, making it more difficult to open an official Pilates studio. Many instructors have navigated this obstacle by opening Pilates-based facilities and choosing to incorporate the ideas of Pilates with modern information on anatomy, physiology and alignment. Sorrentino...
There is much debate and no single explanation for the paradox. To begin with, economists generally agree that official figures understate productivity, though they quarrel sharply about how much and why. It is clear too that many buyers fail to get the most out of their computers--some because they try to make the computers perform functions to which they are not really adaptable; others because they buy computers more powerful and more expensive than they truly need; others still because they fail to appreciate how hard it will be to train their employees to use the machines effectively...
...other officers were suddenly shifted to newly created sales jobs that they suspected were way stations on the road to dismissal. Cole Taylor Bank denied any wrongdoing, insisting that all were welcome to stay on in the new sales positions. Said the bank's attorney Steve Levin: "The real quarrel is, they didn't like the new positions." Carbone did indeed quit, but she could get only one other banking job, and that ended after 10 months. For seven months she worked nights as a hotel receptionist, earning $6.50 an hour--not enough to keep her from declaring personal bankruptcy...
...defense attorneys normally do, but that other, warmer, fuzzier outcome. The subtext of his word choice was unmistakable: strict, old-fashioned justice for the President might prove harsher, colder and more damaging than simply putting the whole matter behind us, in the manner of a bad romance or a quarrel with noisy neighbors. A senior Administration official quoted in the New York Times sounded a similar note. "The American people," the official said, "are not pounding on the door for details; they're pounding on the door for closure...
Other critics raise questions about whether Lott massaged the numbers. One arcane quarrel: for statistical purposes, Lott dropped from his study sample any counties that had no reported murders or assaults for a given year. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University took Lott's figures and analyzed crime rates only in counties with populations above 100,000. Using this yardstick, right-to-carry laws reduced aggravated assaults 67% in Maine--but increased murders 105% in West Virginia. Still other critics note that in concealed-carry states, only about 2% of people have even bothered to get a permit, and they tend...