• If parents are lucky, they might get away for a dinner or drink on their own, but even Disney's Pleasure Island - a Vegas-like strip of nightclubs and over-21 entertainment - was shut down in 2008 and has been reinvented to have a more family-friendly focus, with shops and restaurants instead of nightclubs.

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  • Modern thinking is macro, top-down, and outside-in.

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  • After a sharp runup in the early 1990s, shares skidded sideways from 1993 to 1995 amid concerns about Enron's Dabhol power plant in India--which has since shut down--and a disastrous gas-purchase contract in the North Sea.

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  • For companies, it offers an efficient way to pre-interview candidates and cuts down on time-consuming in-person meetings and inefficient phone screenings.

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  • The chasm between bottom-up state-building and the top-down negotiations in America or Egypt looks wider than ever.

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  • He would build not only wealth for himself but a better life for the doctors and schoolteachers in distant provinces, still living in run-down, vermin-infested apartments and dreaming of raising their kids in solid houses, if only Russia could grow a robust mortgage industry.

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  • Still, mortality figures for under--5s are coming down -- while still being appalling -- and in a country where people have learned to cherish small blessings, there are signs of improvement in some lifestyle areas.

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  • Value investing, on the other hand, means buying companies when they're down-and-out in the belief that they will turn things around and rise in value.

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  • The chapter discusses both the bottom-up environmental movement in the West and the top-down governmental approach in China and presents a case for mutual learning and collaboration.

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  • After South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994, he chaired the Truth and Reconciliation commission - the body set up to investigate apartheid-era crimes - and occasionally broke down in tears at some of the horrific testimony.

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  • The Dane had to come back from 3-1 down in the second set and 3-0 adrift in the decider.

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  • Germany is groping for a mix of top-down direction-setting and bottom-up buy-in for its Energiewende to work.

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  • Murray's retirement came as something of a surprise after he had fought back from losing the opening set 6-3 and being down 4-1 in the second to level the match following a tiebreak.

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  • Verdasco outdid even Wawrinka with an incredible win over David Ferrer on Louis Armstrong Stadium as he recovered from two sets down, then a break down in the decider and finally 4-1 down in the final set tie-break.

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  • Like a down-and-out character in one of his Boston-based films, all he can do is keep on keeping on.

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  • The approach of Klein and others in New York has been too heavy-handed and top-down for my taste, but in many respects the unions own a good deal of the blame.

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  • As he strode lazily out of the room where the interview took place, he was going for a lay-down and possibly a sleep in mid-afternoon.

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  • India endured a miserable tour to New Zealand at the start of the year, losing both Tests on seamer-friendly wickets and going down 5-2 in the one-dayers.

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  • 'The Viking' held his nerve in a thrilling match, coming back from 3-0 and 4-2 down in sets to win.

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  • In short, by implementing anti-deflation and economic growth-stimulating deregulation, while holding down increases in social welfare spending, above-listed objectives 1. and 2. can be realized without increasing taxes.

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  • Businessmen and politicians, often bringing in six-figure incomes, trying to implement top-down reforms on teachers and administrators without asking for input or buy-in, and punishing schools and educators for not meeting their arbitrary standards.

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  • So computer architects and researchers are working on new ways to bring PC heat and power consumption down--and improve performance in the process.

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  • Substitute Scott Williams' moment of late individual brilliance helped Wales come from 12-6 down, and a desperate try-saving tackle in the corner by fellow center Jonathan Davies condemned defending champions England to a first defeat under interim coach Stuart Lancaster.

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  • Collingwood swung defiantly to send Santh over mid-wicket and down to fine-leg for 10 in two balls before another thrash over mid-wicket made it 16 off the over.

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  • The Knicks were down 13-3 and in the midst of a 1-for-13 shooting start when Stoudemire checked in.

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  • He joined West Ham from Blackburn - turning down Liverpool in the process - in January 2007, and was made skipper of the Hammers that summer.

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  • The mayor is also reducing the number of bureaus in order to promote horizontal linkages over top-down policy-making, and giving local communities more autonomy in running operations like garbage collection.

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  • The 57-year-old Silvana, reserved and understatedly elegant in her slacks, button-down shirt and ponytail, started out as a model and swimwear designer for her uncle in the 1970s, and today oversees the women's collections.

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