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...particularly contentious claim in both the exhibit and the DVD was that “in the past four decades, nearly twice as many Americans have died in government psychiatric hospitals than in all US wars since 1776.” Another alleged that psychiatrists are “treating people against their will...
...official at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, Roel Campos, even likened it to "a casino." But in the first eight months of this year, only 85 companies listed on AIM, compared with 201 in the same period a year ago - and almost twice as many have dropped off it. "Capacity is massively down," says Tom Nicholls, a partner at London law firm LG who specializes in matters related to AIM. The nomads themselves are now under financial pressure - their number has dropped from 80 to 69 - and the remaining ones are pessimistic; at a June conference, they were...
...service they pay for. The National Football League has long been sparring in and out of court with the company for not carrying the NFL Network as a basic channel. Also, subscribers have been furious about weak customer service despite robust cable bills, which, industry-wide, have risen at twice the rate of inflation since...
...unhorsing Obama now. In March, Pew found that 56% of high school--educated white voters see newcomers as threatening, compared with less than a third of those with a college degree. White voters who haven't graduated from college, according to a Pew poll in September, were more than twice as likely to think Obama is Muslim as those who have. And not coincidentally, it is among these less educated white voters that McCain is strongest. Among non-Hispanic whites who have attended graduate school, according to Gallup this month, Obama leads McCain by 13 points. Among those with...
...California might have to go to the Federal Government for a $7 billion loan to fund its daily operations, it was the most dramatic display yet of how state and local governments are being buffeted by the deterioration in credit markets. With few willing buyers of municipal securities, Massachusetts twice shelved plans to float $750 million worth of short-term notes used for paying its bills. And across the country, dozens of other funding deals for longer-term projects, from road repair to school expansion, have been delayed...