Only 28% of respondents 65 and over thought there was solid evidence the earth was warming because of human activity, versus 42% overall.

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Also, it is thought that earnings and unemployment figures due out on Wednesday might show worrying evidence of inflation ahead.

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But on second thought it apparently decided the report was bad enough, and enough further evidence that the recovery is in trouble, that the Fed will be forced to quickly provide another round of stimulus.

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Some of the jurors thought that the prosecution had put forward strong evidence that Messrs Kozlowski and Swartz had failed to seek approval, as they should have done, for certain payments to themselves from the board of directors.

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In 1996 the American burger chain won this second battle: the Appeal Court, in essence, applied a less strict test of what it meant to be well-known in South Africa, and accepted the evidence in the two surveys because it thought that whites represented McDonald's target market.

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Another of his legal advisers, Kevin Jon Heller, said that from the scope of the trial - thought to include 1.2 million pages of evidence, numerous crime scenes and hundreds of witness - it was understandable why Mr Karadzic, who is not a trained lawyer, had stayed away.

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The rise and fall in both temperature and carbon dioxide, evident in Antarctic ice cores, was at first thought to be evidence of carbon dioxide driving climate change.

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But, alas, according to the scientists who excavated the remains, the bones belonged to humans, and are actually evidence of tribal skull deformation being more wide-spread than first thought.

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Surprisingly, the commission also found evidence that supermarkets don't seem to hurt small stores as much as was previously thought, and perhaps not at all.

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