intervention
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Taylor’s intervention suggests “that Memphis voters don’t know what their best interests are,” said Martavius Jones, who was chair of the Memphis City Council when the city ordinance passed.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
However, the researchers emphasize that autism does not necessarily create difficulties that require intervention.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
Instead, he went to truck driving school and later went into gang intervention work, following in the footsteps of other men and women who lived through the extreme violence of the 1980s and 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
At a moment when the country needed the judiciary to provide certainty, its intervention instead fueled further political unrest, said Ivar Hartmann, an associate professor at Insper, a São Paulo business school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The vast majority of these insects are held in check by natural forces, without any intervention by man.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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But more drastic interventions may be required to put organizations on firm financial footing, said Michael J. Bobbitt, the recently appointed president and CEO of Opera America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
"Going forward, we hope to clarify the mechanism by which pyruvate promotes triglyceride accumulation to pioneer the development of therapeutic drugs and establishment of preventive methods through dietary interventions," added Professor Harada.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Importantly, the researchers found that comparable proportional losses also occurred with lifestyle interventions, while adding resistance training helped preserve more lean tissue.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
But he said the real question is whether the vaccine is “a melanoma product, or is this one of those new cancer interventions that may have benefit in a diverse set of cancers.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Constructive interventions would have been good not only for African Americans trapped in ghettos, but also for blue-collar workers of all colors, many of whom were suffering too, if less severely.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Freak the Mighty
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