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As the city expands day care programs, the agency will consider proposals for extended hours and has already received a few, according to Jennifer Falk, a spokeswoman.

I am one of the fortunate few: according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, only 20%to40%0% of people with mental illnesses are gainfully employed.

Admitted to the New York Bar in 1980, with offices in Queens, he specialized in criminal law and defended suspects in more than 30 murder cases, winning all but a few, according to colleagues.

Add rising food prices, constant truck traffic, outbreaks of sexually transmitted diseases and nearly nonexistent health care, to name a few, according to residents of the mining towns, health professionals, mine workers and community advocates.

After court-ordered integration of the nation's public-school systems in 1954, a few blacks - very few according to Scott, now the athletic director at Johns Hopkins - began to play the game.

More than a year after its parent union placed the New York City District Council of Carpenters under supervision because its leader was charged with racketeering, the council remains influenced by the mob and is still a source of cash and illicit benefits for a select few, according to a recent assessment.

Even worse for retailers, consumers bought fewer gift cards than last year — 10 to 40percentt fewer, according to various estimates.

Since 2002, Boeheim and Self have each won more than 100 games decided by five points or fewer, according to KenPom.com.

By comparison, NATO forces are blamed for up to 508 civilian deaths last year, according to the Afghanistan Rights Monitor, an independent Afghan group, or even fewer, according to United Nations or NATO figures.

About 30 other districts sent out 50 or fewer, according to the teachers union.

His remarks contained few surprises, according to the attendee.