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...surprisingly effective economic stimulus in the middle of a downturn. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, low-income families spend some 17% of their income on utilities - a far bigger proportion than spent by the better off. "In this economy there are few levers you can pull for people," says Biberman. "You can't do jobs, and you can't lower rents much more. But utility savings are something - it's a chunk of change that...
...Just as gravity pulls together the local chaotic movements of water droplets to orchestrate the outer geometric identity of a waterfall, conventions pull together human turmoil to orchestrate the notion of humanity. The Tamil Tigers can perpetrate the above crime and face mere condemnation from a few countries, because almost no convention to protect war-affected communities exerts enough pressure on rebel groups who abuse civilians. Nearly all mechanisms are devised to limit the scope of military action that a government can take to face a rebellion, which has been proven insufficient to protect internally displaced persons. Moreover, this pressure...
...shot. “The free throw was so unlike her,” Tay said. “She’ll probably not miss another one for the rest of the year.”Berry, though, was able to collect herself and hit the second to pull Harvard to within one.Knowing that it needed a stop, the Crimson stood strong on the defensive end of the floor, forcing a bad Lions miss. However, Columbia grabbed the offensive board and was able to call timeout with five seconds left on the shot clock.Off the inbounds, the Lions were...
...first goal of the game, and the fourth for the Crimson. “It was a great game overall,” Brine said. “The team really came out flying. We all had confidence going into the third that we were going to pull ahead…Sarah had a great game and really contributed on the scoreboard.” At 14:29, Vaillancourt was back at the Big Red net. Tallying her fourth goal of the game and third of the period, Vaillancourt stretched the gap to 5-1. Junior Cori Bassett recorded...
...ramifications are immense and doing this without a plan in place is very dangerous." - Opposing a proposal to have police officers to fill out forms every time they pull a motorist over, intended to identify incidents of racial profiling. The lack of a system to analyze the data, Kerlikowske maintained, would make it is easy to manipulate it to be used against police. Seattle Times, June...