With other areas going all-in with public-private programs, however, states such as Nevada feel that they have no choice if they want to stay competitive.

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Donald Green, who heads the Institution for Social and Policy Studies that housed YIISA, released a statement explaining that YIISA, like all other programs, was evaluated by two set criteria: Its success in publishing articles in top-tier academic journals and its success in attracting a large number of students to its courses.

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Like the other programs, it took the MSN program an afternoon to create an index of all the e-mail and files on my hard drive.

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To determine who's on top among these and other Hollywood rivals, Forbes looked at all entertainment-related earnings--from movies, TV programs, albums, athletic contracts, fashion lines and endorsement deals--between June 2008 and June 2009.

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Just a few years ago, card companies were stumbling over each other to woo new accounts, offering all sorts of incentives, like zero-interest periods and lavish rewards programs, to get people to sign up.

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Wimberly added that other community-based venues such as churches, community centers, hospitals and after-school programs could all disseminate information about contraception and family planning.

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