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Some members of the Pew group have pitched their stance directly to the Bush administration.

But the Pew group argues convincingly that if government helped create the problem, government can also turn things around.

The Pew group has also found that banks have a bewildering array of charges for checking account customers.

They want to read the speech from beginning to end," said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew group.

A poll last month by the Washington-based Pew group finds that 53 per cent of Australians believe today's children will be worse off than their parents.

Despite the doubts, the study raises legitimate questions about the money reaching Mexican families, Mr. Suro of the Pew group said.

But now she works full time at the Pew group and says she came to see the attack as a deep, gory test of her resolve to help the environment.

"EU fishing subsidies have failed to reduce fleet overcapacity, thus exerting fishing pressure on stocks at two or three times sustainable levels," the Pew group argues.

The Pew group, along with some members of Congress, are urging the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to take several steps to protect checking account holders.

The 2008 election "has the potential to combine a record turnout with an insufficient number of poll workers and a voting system still in flux", the report by the non-partisan Pew group says.

This month the Pew group published a study in which 43 percent of the 2,001 adult Internet users polled said they had been confronted with spyware or adware, collectively known as malware.

The study from the Pew group's Economic Mobility Project was an attempt to test the reality behind stories about college leavers who found themselves laden with debt and stuck in low-skill jobs.

Joshua Reichert, the Pew group's managing director, said that if Bush designates the Mariana Trench and the surrounding area, he will have protected more square miles than any previous president.

Doug Crandall, staff director of the Republican-controlled House subcommittee on forests, called the Pew groups "the 800-pound gorilla" on environmental issues "because they focus and target these issues quite effectively."

"I don't think you make social change happen on the basis of paid staff in Washington and paid ads anywhere," Carl Pope, the executive director of the Sierra Club, said, referring to the Pew groups' reputation for top-down management.

The Pew group purchased the data from Beijing-based Horizon Research Consultancy Group, he said, adding that Pew works with Princeton Survey Research International to find reliable local research partners for its global surveys.

But conservationists, including WWF and the Pew group, said many sharks would still be scooped up accidentally, then dumped overboard, particularly by French and Spanish boats trawling the deep seabed northwest of Scotland and Ireland.

The Pew group has been supporting moves over the last year and a half to seek ways of breaking the deadlock within the IWC, and appears to have established enough of a relationship with Japanese whaling officials to engender constructive dialogue.

Last night, the group met at the Pew group's headquarters in downtown Washington to tell shark-survivor jokes (Anderson said his only revenge was the Timex watch the shark swallowed — which went off at 5:15 every morning) and talk about the reactions to their scars.

"If the dynamics of the trade are not changed quickly, we will lose many species of sharks within a generation," Rand warned amid the days-long strategy sessions in Washington last week, where the Pew group was joined by dive shop owners and ecologists from around the world.

The Pew group, the League of Conservation Voters, the Sierra Club, Earthjustice, the Center for American Progress and other environmental and progressive groups applauded the decision as protecting the Colorado River watershed, which supplies drinking water for 25 million people.