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Children's beauty pageants promote unhealthy competition between girls, the cultivation of negative personality traits such as acting like a "diva" and an over-emphasis on appearance and physicality.
Patricia Leavy, PhD: Top 5 Lessons Normal Parents Can Learn From Toddlers & Tiaras PhD Patricia Leavy 2011
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Children's beauty pageants promote unhealthy competition between girls, the cultivation of negative personality traits such as acting like a "diva" and an over-emphasis on appearance and physicality.
Patricia Leavy, PhD: Top 5 Lessons Normal Parents Can Learn From Toddlers & Tiaras PhD Patricia Leavy 2011
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I personally think there is an over-emphasis on dialog and an under-emphasis on content.
Jane Chafin: MFA: Is It Necessary? -- The Debate Jane Chafin 2011
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Children's beauty pageants promote unhealthy competition between girls, the cultivation of negative personality traits such as acting like a "diva" and an over-emphasis on appearance and physicality.
Patricia Leavy, PhD: Top 5 Lessons Normal Parents Can Learn From Toddlers & Tiaras PhD Patricia Leavy 2011
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The results: founder domination, a pattern that affects each of the big three MFIs in Andhra Pradesh and leads to a lack of checks on decisions by managers, and the entrance of pure commercial players like Sequoia Capital India with their over-emphasis on fast growth.
Elisabeth Rhyne: On Microfinance: Who's to Blame for the Crisis in Andhra Pradesh? Elisabeth Rhyne 2010
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I personally think there is an over-emphasis on dialog and an under-emphasis on content.
Jane Chafin: MFA: Is It Necessary? -- The Debate Jane Chafin 2011
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There is a faint note of over-emphasis in all of this, as well as plainly excessive machismo, much encouraged by the publishers of cheesy semi-nude fire department calendars and other forms of sex-driven merchandise, to say nothing of the post-9/11 environment.
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It was a reaction to the over-emphasis that Keynsian economics put on stimulating demand (through budget deficits, government spending, and low interest rates), wrongly assuming that in the chicken and the egg debates of economic growth that the chicken (demand) indeed did come before the egg (supply).
Interest Rate Debate, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I personally think there is an over-emphasis on dialog and an under-emphasis on content.
Jane Chafin: MFA: Is It Necessary? -- The Debate Jane Chafin 2011
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The results: founder domination, a pattern that affects each of the big three MFIs in Andhra Pradesh and leads to a lack of checks on decisions by managers, and the entrance of pure commercial players like Sequoia Capital India with their over-emphasis on fast growth.
Elisabeth Rhyne: On Microfinance: Who's to Blame for the Crisis in Andhra Pradesh? Elisabeth Rhyne 2010
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