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...Department of Justice dismissed the lawsuit, it raised a great deal of public debate and pressured President George W. Bush to form a federal commission to examine these claims. Last month, the Commission on Opportunities in Athletics voted to allow the official use of interest surveys as a tool in enforcing Title IX as well as calculating sporting opportunities by counting positions available on sports teams, rather than actual players. If adopted, these measures would drastically reduce athletic prospects for girls and women...
...cute teddy bears. It is also criticized for encouraging people to express their love on a designated day in a designated way (usually involving flowers), instead of consistently through language in long-term, caring relationships. These are true. The holiday is also condemned as a commercial fiesta, a tool of the business world to increase sales of flowers and chocolate for a random 24-hour period. This, too, is true. In fact, I have already extended the Hallmark Holiday into a full month of consumer spending by showering Dave with Valentine’s stuffed animals and ample Valentine?...
...overwhelming melancholy--kind of like the video in The Ring, but sad, not scary. Trouble arises when the two sides of Cayce's life short-circuit: a billionaire marketer gets wind of the films and hires her to find their creator, so he can use them as a marketing tool...
...state-owned enterprises are muscling in on the initiative. In Chengdu last year, a government-owned machine-tool company was saved from bankruptcy after local bureaucrats ordered one of the city's four credit-guarantee offices to back loans to the factory. Officials feared that if the company closed, laid-off workers would raise a fuss. The case is not an isolated incident. Yan Guosong, general manager of a Chengdu loan-guarantee agency, estimates that more than half of government-backed business loans are now going to state enterprises. "The central government created guarantees to help small businesses...
...research team suggested that more X-ray checks should be performed right after those operations where such errors are most likely to occur in order to ensure that no tool is left lodged inside the patient’s body...