But in the run up to Friday night, a sister program (DIY SOS) was airing a charity special, and throughout the show asking people to text a donation.

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Using information from similar programs in India, a savings and loan program was set up and is run by women in the settlements.

CNN: 'Protest with a proposal'

In his now classic book Execution, The Discipline of Getting Things Done, Ram Charan points out that decisions made in the absence of candid, robust dialogue consistently run into dead ends, and he outlines a program for ensuring that talk is followed up by action.

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If this sounds familiar, it bears an uncanny resemblance to the line ElBaradei and his colleague, Hans Blix, the then-head of the UN weapons inspection program in Iraq, employed to excuse Iraqi non-compliance in the run-up to war last Spring.

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Worsening the situation: premiums for the federally run National Flood Insurance Program whose policies many coastal homeowners also must buy are scheduled to shoot up Oct. 1.

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