Authorities are examining whether Donaghy made calls to affect the point spread in games on which he or associates had wagered thousands of dollars over the past two seasons, according to a law enforcement official.

NPR: Commissioner Says NBA Deserves Benefit of Doubt

And in addition to learning about why lying is good, or why kids have a natural propensity to learn foreign languages, or whether chimps can talk, business executives are taking greater pains to communicate the right impression to customers in a tech-driven world where word-of-mouth can spread like wildfire to affect brand images.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Snowfalls continued to affect much of north, east and central Scotland and north-east England and occasionally spread to parts of Wales, south-west England and Northern Ireland.

BBC: Weather - UK Review - November 2010

To test their theory, the two researchers first needed to find ecological equivalents of the differentiation-triggering chemicals: two things whose relative concentrations affect the shape of patches of vegetation and which like both to spread and to transmute into one another.

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It does not allow gaming to spread outside the tribal lands, and does not affect the state's lottery.

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