Given a paragraph, generate a claim that is supported by the given paragraph. 1) The claim must contain information from within the paragraph. 2) A sentence within the paragraph can be used as a claim. 3) The claim should not have contradictions within the paragraph. 4) The claim should be at most one sentence long.

Q: The decision by Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman in Norman, Oklahoma, came in the first case to go to trial out of 2,700 nationally by states, counties and cities seeking to hold drug companies responsible for the deadly epidemic. Balkman reduced the amount he had awarded in August by $107 million after agreeing with New Brunswick, New Jersey-based J&J that he had made a math error. J&J said it will appeal, and that the award and finding of liability were "neither supported by the facts nor the law." A spokesman for Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter said that office is reviewing the decision and will formally respond within the next few days. Opioids were involved in almost 400,000 overdose deaths from 1999 to 2017, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Following a non-jury trial, Balkman ruled in August that Oklahoma had proven that J&J engaged in misleading marketing about the benefits of painkillers, and that their addictive risks caused a public nuisance in the form of the opioid crisis. Hunter had sought to have J&J pay $17 billion to help fund addiction treatment and other services to repair damage from the opioid epidemic over the next 30 years. Balkman, however, awarded only enough money for one year of programs, saying Oklahoma failed to support its claims regarding the need to abate the epidemic in future years. Following the August ruling, Oklahoma asked Balkman for permission to return to his courtroom annually to prove those costs, but Balkman on Friday maintained his prior ruling. J&J, meanwhile, argued that it deserved a $355 million credit, reflecting pre-trial settlements by the drugmakers Purdue Pharma LP and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Balkman concluded on Friday that state law did not allow such credits. Last month, J&J and four other companies proposed a $48 billion settlement framework to resolve all of the opioid cases they face, with J&J paying $4 billion. Lawyers for the local governments have opposed the proposal. If approved, the settlement would let J&J resolve some of the thousands of product liability lawsuits it faces. The company also faces litigation over whether its baby powder causes cancer, a claim it denies.

A: Oklahoma judge reduces Johnson & Johnson opioid payout to $465 million.
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Q: Wiping her face with a cotton pad after a Botox injection, the 49-year-old supermarket worker said she has cut down on petrol and entertainment to afford the treatments, which make the skin appear smoother by temporarily paralyzing muscles. "I want to look at myself in the mirror and feel good. I'm afraid of aging," Vorlioti said. "Work, the crisis, they push you down and you want something uplifting." She is not the only one seeking solace in beauty treatments amid a financial crisis that cut hundreds of thousands of jobs cut, slashed salaries and caused a sharp decline in life satisfaction among Greeks. In fact, it seems Greece is undergoing what has been dubbed the "lipstick effect", where consumers turn to low cost beauty to boost their mood during economic depressions. Non-surgical procedures in Greece soared to more than 220,000 in 2016 compared to around 61,000 in 2010, the biggest jump in Europe in the six-year period, according to data by the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS). At between 80 and 150 euros a pop, it doesn't come cheap for Greeks, who earn an average net monthly income of about 780 euros. Some, like Vorlioti, need to save up for months in order to be able to afford a treatment and yet more are choosing to have them, doctors say. "The crisis has brought new people to the doctor's doorstep, people who wouldn't come before, both men and women who are struggling and want to improve their looks to feel better," said Lia Papadavid, a dermatologist. "It's like giving themselves a present," she told Reuters shortly after giving a middle-aged female a filler injection around her eyes. The rise in Greece follows a world-wide upward trend in non-surgical procedures. It ranked 14th in the world among the top 24 countries in terms of volume of non surgical treatments in 2016, behind countries such as Italy and Germany but above Belgium, according to ISAPS. Surgical treatments, which can cost thousands of euros, are up only 10 percent since 2010. Waiting her turn at the Athens Aurum medical center, 43-year-old Eleni says she turned to injectables in 2013 and has not stopped despite the crisis. "No one has money to spare, everyone is being pressured right now with the crisis, some less, some more. I think it needs a bit of planning, and to love yourself." Investment in the beauty industry doubled between 2009-2015, said the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises in a July report. New nail bars and beauty centers have popped up in central Athens and in the central Syntagma square, young men and women are seen handing out flyers advertising discounts on cosmetic services to passers-by. Chairman of the ISAPS Education Council Paraskevas Kontoes said the surge in non invasive treatments could be explained by their low cost, better results thanks to new technology and people needing to boost their self-esteem battered by years of crisis. Non surgical beauty treatments are fast enough to have in a lunch break, but their effects are only temporary. Results can last eight months or longer depending on the product, Dr Stefanos Stathakis said. He also said most people choose treatments for the face, tying in with other doctors' reports that their clients believe they can help them score better in a job interview, particularly as competition for jobs in Greece is fierce. "They believe it will become easier for them to get a job," said Vorlioti's dermatologist Froso Saksioni. "People struggle and come here for a change. If you charge them a fortune for a treatment it's like giving them a slap instead." As Saksioni prepares for "a vampire lift", where the doctor withdraws and then reinjects a patient's blood to erase wrinkles, Vorlioti books her next appointment. "I've decided to cut down on everything else to do this", she said. "When I feel good about myself, I think it shows."

A: The lipstick effect: Greeks discover need to pamper in crisis.
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Q: In February 2020, we received multiple inquiries from readers about remarks attributed to U.S. presidential candidate and former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, in which the billionaire businessman appeared to say he could teach "anybody" to be a farmer, but that information technology required greater intelligence. On Feb. 16, Wisconsin Republican official Anna Kelly posted a 60-second clip of Bloomberg to Twitter, writing: "Billionaire Bloomberg claims he 'could teach anybody to be a farmer,' even implying that farmers don't have the same level of 'skill set' or 'grey matter' as folks in tech jobs. So demeaning, elitist, and out-of-touch it's appalling." Her post was retweeted by Donald Trump Jr., son of President Donald Trump. The younger Trump added: "Bloomberg wouldn't last 3 seconds as a farmer you can tell he really hates regular hardworking Americans. He will never fight for them because he couldn't care less about them." In the clip, Bloomberg can be heard saying:"I could teach anybody even people in this room, no offense intended to be a farmer. It's a [process]: you dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn." Later, he contrasts the nature of that work with that of the "information economy": "[] The information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze, and that is a whole degree level different. You have to have to have a different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter." Bloomberg wouldn't last 3 seconds as a farmer but like his comments on minorities, you can tell he really hates regular hardworking Americans. He will never fight for them because he couldn't care less about them. https://t.co/03CmskF5Vn Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 17, 2020 The 60-second clip, and Bloomberg's remarks, garnered widespread coverage and prompted an angry response from some right-leaning observers. In an interview with Fox News, South Dakota's Republican Gov. Kristi Noem accused Bloomberg of exhibiting "pompous ignorance" in his comments. The video footage contained in Kelly's Twitter post, and subsequently shared widely online, was authentic and not doctored. Although clearly it was cut from a much longer video, its removal from its original context did not substantively alter its tone or sense, nor deprive the viewer of context which might significantly change or impinge upon their understanding of Bloomberg's remarks. As such, the claim that Bloomberg had said he could "teach anybody to be a farmer" and that information technology work required "more gray matter" was accurate. The original video was recorded at the University of Oxford's Said Business School on Nov. 17, 2016. Bloomberg appeared there as part of the school's "Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series." The full video can be viewed on YouTube, below. When he made his remarks about farming and technology, Bloomberg was responding to a question, placed by an audience member, about the role of business leaders in addressing or alleviating public perceptions of economic inequality, especially in the context of Trump's 2016 election victory, which had taken place only days earlier. The following is a complete transcript of that question, and Bloomberg's full response. The segment shown in the 60-second clip is in bold type: Ewen Hollingsworth: Ewen Hollingsworth, doing my MBA here. Mr. Bloomberg, Trump got in on a great sense of inequality, not just in the United States but across the world. There's been a divide, and there's an increasing divide, between the haves and the have-nots. What do you think business leaders what's their responsibility to addressing that divide and uniting, perhaps, the central America [read: 'Middle America'] and the coasts? Mike Bloomberg: Well, number one, I question whether you're right. We have, in the last four decades, cut poverty in half in the world, if you measure poverty by people who go to bed without a roof over their head, a meal in their stomach and [who] can't read. So society is making some progress. Life expectancy is going up, we're [inaudible] cure more diseases, and we're about to eradicate thanks to [Bill] Gates and a little bit of money from us eradicate polio. So we're doing some things to help. Number two, the bottom 20% is a lot better off than the bottom 20% in the past. The bottom 20% in America the bottom 20% in New York City, 80% have cars, 30% have two cars, virtually everybody has a cellphone, they all have 72-inch TV screens and sort of thing. So there is some of this, so you've got to be careful in this. And, incidentally, before we address the basic issue, if you measure poverty by the top 1% versus the bottom 20%, you get very different numbers than if you measure it by the two to 20% down from the top here, and the bottom 20%. Because of very low interest rates, you have inflated values of fixed assets, which are almost always owned by the very wealthy, and so, they've shot up maybe it's the top 5% but if you adjusted for that, it's not as disparate as you would think. So that's what the real world is. We have a problem of income inequality, nevertheless. I would argue what's more important is we have educational inequality. There was a story on the front page of the FT [Financial Times] today, I think it was, that said there's nobody from the poor districts of London that comes to this great school, one of the great universities of the whole world, and zero from poor neighborhoods, at least I assume the statistics are right and they didn't just cherry-pick one neighborhood. So that is more important than net worth because that says what the future is going to be for the young people. Having said all of that, you can fix the inequality. You take money from the rich and you give it to the poor. We've always done that, we have a tax system, generally, around the world, that is graduated at the top end, progressive tax system, takes more money from the rich per capita and redistributes it. Tuition in a university, in America certainly, is a Robin Hood plan. You want the kids are always on the wrong side of that, they always want lower tuition, no you don't, you want to raise tuition in the university, as high as you can, so the wealthy will contribute more money, and then use the extra money to subsidize those kids who have no money. If you reduce the amount of money you take in from the rich, it's the poor that get hurt, not helped. So some of these things are a little bit counterintuitive. But you take the money from the rich, you give it to the poor, you do it for altruistic reasons, you do it because you don't want the poor on your doorstep and there are a variety of things. But I think what you've got to understand is the people who are getting the subsidy want the dignity of a job. They want the dignity of being responsible for their family and being able to take care of it. And that's the conundrum we're going to have here because technology is reducing the ability to give them the jobs. We just more and more, if you think about it, the agrarian society lasted 3,000 years, and we could teach processes. I could teach anybody even people in this room, no offense intended to be a farmer. It's a [process]. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn. You could learn that. Then you have 300 years of the industrial society. You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow and you can have a job. And we created a lot of jobs. [At] one point, 98% of the world worked in agriculture, today it's 2%, in the United States. Now comes the information economy. And the information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing people with technology, and the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze. And that is a whole degree level different. You have to have a different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter. It's not clear that teachers can teach or the students can learn. So the challenge for society is to find jobs for these people who we can take care of giving them a roof over their head and a meal in their stomach, and a cellphone and a car and that sort of thing. But the thing that's the most important, that will stop them from setting up the guillotines some day, is the dignity of a job. And nobody's yet come up with a simple solution, in this day and age, to how we create jobs, particularly for people already out of school. I can tell you how to fix the school system so that the kids come out with better skills, more ability to appreciate life and to work collaboratively and collectively and read the instruction manual and follow orders. But it's very hard to figure out where the jobs they're going to get will come from, and for those that are already out in the work force, to get them back into the system and teach them new skill sets, is almost impossible. It's very very hard to do and nobody's really shown they could it. There's individual cases where you can retrain them, I don't want to overstate it. But the coal miner I talked about in West Virginia is not going to move, and his family, out to California where the solar jobs are, and even if he got there he's not going to get those jobs. Nobody's going to hire an older person. It's fascinating to me older people are always willing to hire younger people; younger people are not willing to hire older people. I think it's just they're afraid of older people that may have skill sets they don't have, and you know, they make fun of them, they say they're not able to change and think none of those things are true, there are plenty of older people who are really smart and really can do new things if you gave them the opportunity. But there's a discrimination from young managers to hire older people. It's reasonably well documented I think, and certainly observable. So your basic premise is, it's not that bad, it's better than it was before, but it's a big problem and the problem is not the redistribution of wealth, it is the job where you're going every day. And you say 'What's business's responsibility?' It's not business's job. Business's job is to take the investors' money and to maximize the money by creating products that the public wants and are willing to pay for. And you can't say to them they should go and create jobs deliberately. You can have a tax policy that encourages that, and that's one of the things you should do, and then use the collective wisdom of all of the heads of companies, to create small pockets, and it adds up to a lot of jobs. That's what I would do right away. Your taxes are lower the more people you hire, and higher the fewer people you hire. And let capitalism work, because government's not going to be able to solve the problem directly. But short of that, who's going to create the jobs? Well if it's not industry, there's only one group left to do it. And so the next time you want more efficient government, think twice. I'm not so sure you do want more efficient government. Back in the '30s, we created an inefficient government. We put people to work building infrastructure we needed. They weren't maybe the you could have had other people do it more efficiently but we wanted to create jobs and we did, and it took us World War II was really what took us out of the Depression, but it got us through the Depression. And maybe that is the answer, that we're going to say 'government's got to create no-show jobs,' or jobs that you have to show but that aren't needed. We can pass a law that says you've got to move all the paper from the left to the right side of the building every day, and back again. Okay. And then the government are going to hire people to do it. But it's better than people being out on the streets, desperate for a job, not being able to find it, [destabilizing] society."

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"In 2016 Mike Bloomberg said he ""could teach anybody to be a farmer"" but information technology required ""a lot more gray matter."
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