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  • With the prospect of an election date announcement looming, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott launched into campaign mode with a plan to provide 800 acute and sub-acute early intervention beds, 60 new youth mental health centres and 20 Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Japanese central bank intervention threat halts dollar's slide _ for now Intervention threat halts dollar slide _ for nowLONDON - Market fears of a possible intervention by the Bank of Japan to support the dollar helped the U.S. currency recover its poise Friday after it hit a 14-year low against the yen.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • "Intervention" is depicted as the storming and occupation of the imperial palace of faculties:

    Seeing Is Reading 2005

  • Intervention is supported, pace Dembski, by the data, not the theory.

    Blast From the Past 2010

  • Sara Schieron in the San Francisco Bay Guardian: "Building on the ideas explored in Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media and Why We Fight, Tonje Hessen Schei's documentary Independent Intervention is the single most staggering doc yet made about the unholy matrimony of the military-industrial complex and the media."

    GreenCine Daily: Docs and hybrids. 2006

  • Peter Piot, who heads the United Nation†™ s HIV/AIDS program, warned that the disease “shows no sign of letting up after 25 million people have died a quarter-century into the epidemic. ” “Intervention is very low, ” Piot warned, “for many critical populations in many countries.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 30, 2006 2006

  • Intervention is really interfering in part with the sovereignty of China, touching the sovereign rights of China.

    What Is To Become of China? 1928

  • The network paneled its "Intervention"-style series "Gone Too Far" with DJ AM that shows young addicts trying to get sober, along with "The Buried Life," where a quartet travel the country helping strangers accomplish something they'd like to do before they die.

    MTV, now the feel-good network -- The Live Feed | THR 2009

  • The network paneled its "Intervention"-style series "Gone Too Far" with DJ AM that shows young addicts trying to get sober, along with "The Buried Life," where a quartet travel the country helping strangers accomplish something they'd like to do before they die.

    MTV, now the feel-good network -- The Live Feed | THR 2009

  • The other half is what comes at the end of "Intervention" - 90 days in a treatment facility, fully covered.

    Booman Tribune 2009

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