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...troubling news for the conservatives. Longtime rightist bastions like Lyons and Toulouse could fall to the Socialists and their allies, and the left seems likely to retain fiefdoms like Strasbourg, Rennes and Lille. Though conservatives still retain a solid grip on Marseilles and Bordeaux, Delanoë's Socialist-led ticket looks set to wrest Paris away from the Gaullists for the first time in 24 years...
...little old-fashioned ballyhoo might help as well. Last month, in response to the steep decline in ridership after Hatfield, Branson announced "The World's Biggest Rail Offer," slicing ticket prices in half. Trouble is, all that demand led to a customer service "meltdown"-Branson's word-and Britain's newspapers were quick to report "chaos" in the rail system. "When Harrods has a sale on and there's a line outside, you don't hear anyone whingeing," says Bowker...
...Works. ETS president Kurt Landgraf, former CEO of DuPont Pharmaceuticals, hopes to double ETS's overall revenues within five years, to more than $1 billion a year. "The future for testing is in K-12," says Landgraf. "It's the biggest initiative we have." His golden ticket may be ETS's new "e-rater," a nifty tool that can grade essay questions in under a second, using advanced artificial-intelligence technology. ETS claims the scores the e-rater spits out match those given by human graders 97% of the time. That's as accurate as a second human reader...
Many students in Baker Professor of Economics Martin J. Feldstein's massive Social Analysis 10 class-better known as Ec10-believe this class to be their golden ticket...
...high social costs of gambling outweigh the benefits of the fun of casinos, then progressive activists, Christians and all people with consciences should work together to eliminate it. If not, then maybe we should follow Kovner's suggestion to buy a Megabucks lottery ticket today...