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McCaskill Takes Aim at Diet Scams that are ‘a crisis in consumer protection’
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U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today took aim at weight-loss diet scams that she said represent “a crisis in consumer protection”—using a hearing in the Consumer Protection panel that she leads to pose tough questions to popular TV host Dr. Mehmet Oz on his frequent claims about “miracle” products, explore options for regulators and industry to crack down on deceptive practices, and urge media outlets to strengthen screening of false advertising.
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Title: The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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a pole with a brad-awl in it, and there were some terrible battles amongthem for the first chance. That experiment cost the Company more thantwenty thousand dollars, besides a great loss from the interruption ofbusiness while the line was down. They only stopped the scratching bygetting a lot of cross-cut saws and fastening them perpendicularly in theposts, so that when a buffalo rubbed against it vigorously for a minute orso he would find himself sawed into two buffaloes. This was more thanthey could stand, and, after a few dozens had thus divided themselves, thebalance concluded to let the telegraph posts alone. Youll have a nightmare for that story, said one of the listeners, asthe party broke up and retired to their sleeping-places. An hour later there was an outcry that brought everybody to his feet. PUNISHMENT FOR STORY-TELLING. 225 It came from the teller of the brad-awl story, vlio was sleeping nearwhere the horses were tied up, and had appropriated a bag of oats for apillow.
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AN ATTACK OF NIGHTMARE. lie thought his scalp was being removed by a hostile Indian, and heyelled out for mercy; but the savage red man proved to be nothing moredangerous than one of the horses that had got free from his halter andwas looking around for something to eat. He scented the oats and wentfor them, and in trying to take a mouthful he unintentionally seized thehair of the slumberer. Thereupon came the dream of the red man andhis barbarities, and the consequent outcry that roused the camp. As had been expected, the herd moved several miles down the valley,so that it took a ride of more than an hour to reach them. Two of the 15 226 THE YOUNG NIMRODS. hunters of the previous day did not care to go out, as one of them hadinjured his hand during the chase, and the other was suffering from asprained ankle. They kindly loaned their horses to the boys; and as theanimals were split-ears of the best character, there was a prospect thatthe buffaloes might feel the weight of bullets from
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Success: After Weight Loss Surgery 2008 – Charlotte, NC
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Taken at the 2008 "Success: After Weight Loss Surgery" conference in Charlotte, NC hosted by Southeast Bariatrics in association with www.band2gether.net.
