The leading indicators also were up last week with the weak consumer sentiment the primary negative.

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They successfully employed this approach during the primary season, running negative ads around the clock in key states.

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The reading skills that pupils develop by loaning books remains with them throughout their lives and goes some way to counteract the negative effects of an stunted primary education.

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He was endorsed by all the big local names, including the mayor, Mitch Landrieu, and his sister, Senator Mary Landrieu, but the primary was marked by a slew of negative advertising from Mr Richmond's opponents that questioned, among other things, his involvement in a bar-room brawl over a game of pool in 2007.

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While the company did not issue a press release explaining the decision, but analysts cited the high likelihood of a negative opinion coming down as a primary reason.

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Given that limited access to quality ECE has negative effects on child development which, in turn, undermines child performance at primary and post-primary school, The Mother-Child Home Education Programme (MOCEP) was initiated in 2000 to empower poor families to provide early childhood literacy training to their children through a home-based intergenerational literacy training approach.

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