Word: act
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...loggerheads with the U.S. Last week, Obama said Wall Street could not go back to the days of "reckless behavior and unchecked excess," but he has repeatedly said he is against creating strict rules on pay. Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker said on Sept. 17 that Europe should act on bonuses "whether the Americans are with us or not." (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...individual governments. He adds that although bonuses are a powerful rallying point for E.U. leaders, the payouts represent just a tiny fraction of the global banking losses over the past year and are not to blame for the crisis. "Bankers are exceedingly unpopular, and leaders feel they have to act," he says. "But bonuses are a symptom of the crisis, not a cause...
...technology brings a new conundrum: in order to exploit these tools, we have to act before someone we know goes to the hospital with H1N1. "Decisions have to be made in the absence of true, hard scientific information," says Dr. Paul Jarris, head of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. "We just have to be comfortable with that." (See how to track the swine flu outbreak on your iPhone...
...already 362 soldiers have died this year compared to a total of 294 in 2008. The Taliban is also drawing strength from accusations of fraud in the recent elections to de-legitimize Hamid Karzai’s government. Reporters need to respect this precarious situation, and they must act with appropriate prudence...
...strong player in the global economy. Still, a retreat inward is not only fundamentally flawed, but also ultimately futile. (Exports of goods and services as a share of India’s economy have practically quadrupled in the past two decades.) What better triumph for Indians, what better act of empowerment, than to adopt the vocabulary of their oppressors to enhance and enrich their tradition...