Some 39% could not hear and say short vowel sounds within words such as "pen", "hat" and "dog".
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Frankly, I was starting to wonder if there was anything else to say short of "it's a horrible mess!"
In short, they say stress does lead to relapses into bad behaviour - but that it can reinforce good habits too.
Dyck and Zingales say short-sellers started tipping off selective journalists about the "related-party" transactions involving Enron's senior officers and their insider trading.
The Barnett formula is used by the UK Treasury to set the budgets of the devolved nations and which critics say short changes Wales.
The follow-up period in the new study was relatively short, they say, and breast-cancer diagnosis and treatment may be different in China compared to the United States.
In short, they say, let us try harder to prevent families from requiring social care, to prevent people from requiring hospital treatment, to deflect young people from an aimless life which ends in prison.
To make short-selling faster, there are rules that say all traders need do is "locate" a share of the stock they want to short, meaning they find someone to say they have the shares to lend out to them.
They say the short extension makes no economic sense, but then neither does a one-year extension.
Mr. Lack doesn't say that short selling is the major source of hedge-fund risk.
When you say a short-term extension absent something more significant, are you talking about the McConnell fallback?
Unionist politicians say that Short Strand residents want to expand their enclave.
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In short, what politicians say about labour-market flexibility appears to be true.
Lawyers who have defended Wall Street firms against naked short-selling allegations say the problem is overblown and that companies that complain about manipulation are generally weak and looking to blame financial problems on outsiders.
Though regulators say naked short-selling (in which shares are sold short without being properly borrowed) isn't a pervasive problem, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sees it as enough of a risk that it is seeking to close certain loopholes that makes it easier to pull off a naked short trade.
Doctors are already in short supply--experts say an additional 5, 000 more are needed each year.
Last Friday's "fiscal pact" on tax and spending had little to say about the short-term crisis.
Symptoms include burning pain in the lower legs after, say, a short walk to the mailbox.
Some critics say it falls short, even of the EPA's own target, as NPR's Elizabeth Shogren reports.
But some say that nothing short of a megamerger with Eli Lilly or another big company will do.
Currently, the Pentagon does some limited training of short duration, defense sources say.
You say it falls short, but do you see a basis for compromise?
You'd buy Dow Chemical, say, and short DuPont, and (if you picked the right companies) make money whether the chemical sector went up or down.
Opponents of short-term tax fixes say that while they understand they need for economic stimulus, longer term changes to the tax code for small businesses are also needed.
Will getting some cash out of borrowers in the short term (by, say, extending the life of the loan to reduce the payments) prove a better deal for investors than immediate foreclosure?
But while those new safeguards are enough to raise hackles in the advertising industry, irate privacy groups say they fall short of their demands, and even represent a deterioration of current privacy protections.
One way to get that effect on the Chicago Merc is to make two trades--one in which you are long dollars and short euros, another in which you are short dollars and long, say, the Swedish krona.
The current rules don't require the brokers to fix the trades by buying shares to cover their short positions after 13 days, they merely say that if the trades aren't fixed, the broker can't do any more short-sales in that security without borrowing or arranging to borrow the stock.
The short answer is that the numbers say yes, Petttitte is Hall of Fame worthy.
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