Scavone starts with daily reports on companies that have reported troubling events, from missing analysts' earnings estimates, to reporting higher inventories, to receiving an auditor's adverse opinion.

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Hence another response to adverse public opinion: that Europe's people would soon learn to love it if only its institutions were more open and democratic.

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"The weight of the published scientific evidence, in addition to the opinion of global health organizations, shows that there is no link between wireless usage and adverse health effects, " said Joe Farren, a spokesman for the CTIA-the Wireless Association.

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