Word: adopter
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...made his point. In an afternoon session, he returned to the dangers of any impression of a conflict of interest. "The foundation exists as a temptation to any foreign entity or government that believes it can curry favor through a donation," he said, and urged Clinton to adopt three additional measures: first, to disclose all donations over $50,000 immediately rather than in one year's time; second, to disclose all pledges over $50,000 by foreign individuals or businesses immediately; and third, to submit to the State Department ethics review all foreign individual and business donations over...
...week before Heath Ledger's passing, Brad Renfro died. A poor kid from Knoxville, he was cast at 10 as the lead in a John Grisham thriller The Client, revealing a natural, winsome poise that made viewers of the hit film want to adopt him. Someone responsible should have. This sensitive waif starred in Bryan Singer's film of the Stephen King Apt Pupil, but over the years his rap sheet proved longer than his movie résumé. Constantly in trouble on drug-related charges, Renfro died of a heroin overdose...
...idea of greener - and cheaper - health is catching on fast among health-care CEOs. Some 150 registered health-care industry construction projects currently underway - involving about 30 million sq. ft. of new building space - have pledged to adopt the Green Guide for Health Care (GGHC), a sustainable design toolkit developed in part by HCWH, which helps the health-care sector construct healthier buildings from the start, according to Cohen. For example, the guide suggests ways to maintain indoor air quality, as indoor pollution can cause or aggravate many health conditions and threaten the well-being of patients with compromised immune...
...months, for example, subjects start to reap the physical rewards of trimming down. "Their knees and back no longer ache. They start to look better in clothes," he says. "Those benefits become their own reinforcements, so you can turn off the incentive program." Employers and insurers could adopt a similar program, with monthly premiums falling along with the numbers on the scale. "We all tend to discount amorphous health benefits that will come sometime in the future," Volpp says. "So the key is to provide some immediate gratification...
...single most important environmental event of the year was Barack Obama's election to the U.S. presidency. Greens hope that Obama will fulfill pledges to adopt caps on carbon emissions at home - a necessity, if the U.S. is ever going to lead globally on climate change. But while the thought of President Obama has environmentalists feeling warm around the world, the cold logic of the Inaugural schedule means that President George W. Bush's negotiators are still in charge at Poznan. While his team no longer has the power to bring talks to a standstill, as it has in past...