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...government office and some bribes. When a group of women from Malipura village recently complained they had not received their $10 maternity benefits, their protest was forwarded to the local government officer, Mohini Srivatsav, who ordered the village chief to pay. If not acted on within a seven-day deadline, pending complaints pop up on the computers of Rajora and Vyas, the top district officers, who then take action. "Government employees once accepted bribes and hardly delivered, confident that nobody was looking," says Srivatsav. "Now, Gyandoot has them terrified...
...resort setting. This $2 million machine works with high-resolution ultrasound and other space-age diagnostic tools to detect early signs of heart disease and cancer. For around $8,000 per person, anyone whose stock portfolio hasn't tanked with the NASDAQ can splurge on a rigorous seven-day medical screening and fitness program offered at the new Mandara...
...Maurizio. The food at Ristorante Limoncello is sinfully good, and business ain't bad either. And not since the tired, the poor and the huddled masses began paddling ashore has any immigrant found more happiness in a seven-day workweek. "Maurizio bought his dream," says Cynthia DeMarco, a waitress at Caffe Graffiti, an espresso bar around the corner...
Then began a weird, seven-day, 1,500-mile car trip to Arkansas, which grants adoptions in as few as 10 days if all the birth and adoptive parents agree. When motel rooms were full, the Kilshaws, Wecker, her daughter Nolle and her twins all slept in a green Dodge Caravan. The babies developed coughs, and one ended up in the hospital, dehydrated. But the adoption was approved in Arkansas. Just after Christmas the Kilshaws brought the babies, renamed Kimberly and Belinda, to their seven-bedroom farmhouse in northern Wales--and decided to tell their tale of Tina Johnson...
...justices then denounce Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris for "imposing an arbitrary seven-day deadline." They then proceed, without irony, to impose their own arbitrary five-day deadline. (Hers, unlike theirs, was not arbitrary but statutory...