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...California the standard is any discrimination or distinction in the way a business provides goods or services to the able-bodied and disabled. "If you fully comply with the ADA - and only with the ADA - in California, you can still be sued," says Peters. "Only 2% of buildings are compliant in California since the ADA guidelines went into effect...
...Harvard Square—The Gap, Eastern Mountain Sports, and Urban Outfitters—traffic throughout Friday afternoon was moderate and not near the crushing crowds seen at major retailers around the country. At Urban Outfitters on Brattle Square, where limited discounts were offered, bundled up hipsters and their compliant parents turned out in sufficient force for the store to meet its sales goal, a slight increase over last year’s figures, according to store merchandiser Michael Graney. Smaller boutiques opted for a creative approach to entice customers. Concepts, a sneaker boutique, began selling a shoe exclusive...
...After a decade of war, Nepal is still counting the cost of violence, chronic energy and food shortages, and the loss of its best and brightest to jobs overseas. It's easy for the country's neighbors to see it as it was in its kingly past - a helpless, compliant pawn in the geo-political games of others. But, as Dahal and his government attempt to refashion the nation, most Nepalis - beginning with the Prime Minister - want India and China to see a Nepal finally standing on its own feet...
...that hypertension is a particularly good condition to treat with home-based strategies, say both Jones and Green. Like weight-loss support groups and exercise programs, pharmacist-assisted self-monitoring keeps patients motivated and compliant with their treatment - and, in some cases, may prevent the disease from becoming serious enough to require pharmaceutical treatment. Most physicians also acknowledge that more frequent monitoring is likely more accurate: doctors take only one or two blood pressure measurements a year, when patients come into the office, but those readings can be influenced by a patient's stress or tenseness in the doctor...
...intellectually crucial that they beat their former colonial masters at their own game. Western democracy, as they see it, is hollow. Western governments that were democratically elected at home pursued autocratic colonialism abroad. Even after the end of the age of imperialism, neo-imperialists funneled support to compliant dictators around the world, and relentlessly attempted to fix the rules of the global economy in their favor. According to this view, employing a little election tinkering here and a little intimidation there is merely playing by rules set by the West...