Blocked by shares police from fells in reaching the city, the monks sit for several hours at a checkpoint before dispersing. At dusk, students and monks stage a second demonstration in the center of Lhasa, making a circle around Barkhor Square and joining hands. "wanna. "People who cannot make their mortgage payments or find that their homes are worth less than their loans fall into the "gotta" camp, and are helping to account for a rising tide of defaults and foreclosures. But these homeowners constitute less than 10% of the total market, Karevoll said. Subsequent investigations by Edison and the PUC uncovered elaborate schemes that artificially boosted the company's customer satisfaction scores along with extraordinary measures taken by safety managers to downplay employee injuries. In Edison's planning department, where employees help contractors and others with new or expanded electrical service, workers manipulated customer service surveys from 1987 through 2003 to make sure that employees and the company won bonuses from the commission. Edison made the problem public a year after it received a whistle-blower's letter describing the fraud and several months after a second anonymous letter was sent to senior managers -- this time with copies sent to state regulators and other public officials. To help their cause amid chronic understaffing and a surging workload, Edison employees erased or changed the phone numbers of unhappy customers to prevent customer satisfaction surveyors from reaching them. A fourth Republican hopeful, developer Peter Monroe, got about 5%. Harris retreated behind her comfortable lead in the last days of campaigning, making only one meet-and-greet appearance over Labor Day weekend in the safe conservative territory of Miami's Little Havana.

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