But it also doles out praise to its subjects, particularly Clay Shirky and Jay Rosen.
Meanwhile, environmental group Greenpeace doles out a "green ranking" to computer makers every year.
Poor productivity keeps Indian farmers trapped in a cycle of poverty, despite all the subsidies the government doles out.
At the moment, it mostly buys grain and doles it out in areas where there is little or no food.
In another initiative, Buffalo has a plush costumed frog named Ready Freddy who doles out hugs and high fives inside youngsters' classrooms.
Dickerson doles out Cassandra-like warnings about water shortages every chance he gets.
Nowadays, 21% of the money the corporation doles out annually goes on innovation, up from 14% in 1994 and practically nothing in 1991.
The federal government often doles out funding to affected areas, but it is local officials who manage transportation systems before, during and after disasters occur.
The kiddo on the left fires guns and unleashes special attacks while the kiddo on the right places shields and doles out splash damage via projectiles.
At the time his state's unemployment rate was among the highest in the nation, and in December the fund that doles out unemployment benefits ran out of money.
An overwhelming percentage of lawmakers presumably know that things such as ethanol subsidies are terrible public policy, but they get enacted because the agribusiness industry doles out contributions to politicians from both parties.
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And while visions of straight up 10Mbps HSDPA dance in our head, it would appear that Cingular's initial rollout their HSDPA service ( BroadbandConnect) doles out much smaller chunks of bandwidth to its customers.
The modified N900 attaches a resistor that responds to a squeeze at four different pressure levels, and doles that out during a traditional or Skype-based call as a vibration on the other end.
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Oscar devotees know too well the fatigue that sets in right around the hour mark in the program, when the Academy doles out its most obscure awards to recipients who are often unglamorous and numerous.
Pirelli doles out "the Cal, " as those in the know call it, to a select group of 40, 000 special people, including members of the British royal family, the king of Spain, Paul Newman and Bill Gates.
To oversee the renovation, Mr. McIlwee, a 45-year-old Hollywood business manager who doles out financial advice to clients such as Ben Stiller and Selma Blair, camped out for more than a month, reading by flashlight and showering at the gym.
The EFSF is supposed to raise the money through selling AAA bonds guaranteed by the European Union (many of whose members are flat broke), then give the money to the Spanish government which in turn doles it out to the spendthrift banks.
Take-Two not only pays Rockstar salaries, but it doles out millions of dollars of "internal royalties" to the Rockstar team every quarter, a move that could prompt EA's own developers to start demanding more money, too, if EA brings Rockstar on board.
Landowners aside, the biggest fear for Okinawans generally is that, were the bases to go, so would the generous handouts that the government in Tokyo doles out as compensation for playing host to three out of four American bases in all of Japan.
The hacker doesn't even need to be in the same ZIP code to crack a firewall or VPN -- the 3G link lets the Power Pwn take bash command-line instructions through SMS messages and doles out some of its feedback the same way.
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