Word: adopter
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...field on them," he says. Currently, Matcor's work is about 75% domestic, but it's looking to grow globally. One client is a Chilean company that distributes natural gas throughout Santiago. "They had us do an American-style integrity-management review of their pipeline, because they want to adopt the same standards that we have here," says Schutt. Green concerns are also a strong motivator to protect pipelines, as was the case with a recently completed project in Russian-owned Sakhalin Island, which "is a huge environmental reserve with a lot of beautiful wildlife," he says...
...religion. As Chief Justice Warren E. Burger wrote in Lemon v. Kurtzman, “This kind of state inspection and evaluation of the religious content of a religious organization is fraught with the sort of entanglement that the Constitution forbids.” Rather, the VA should adopt a methodology more similar to that of the IRS, which makes no attempt to evaluate the content of the belief system in its evaluations for religious tax exemptions...
...TANGO MAKES THREE Two male penguins really did adopt an abandoned chick, but the book about it has been accused of homosexual undertones. BELOVED Toni Morrison's Pulitzer-prizewinning novel about antebellum slavery has been attacked for its depiction of bestiality, racism and sex. SO FAR FROM THE BAMBOO GROVE Based on the Japanese author's WW II-era experiences, the novel is criticized for its hints at rape and domestic abuse...
...alarm at the risk of irritating" more relaxed euro partners. She applauded signs that they had become "worried about the euro's level, and voiced their wishes to see concerted action" in response. Before the G-7 summit opens, Lagarde said she hoped to see "the entire Eurogroup adopt France's position...
...Crimson argued in a staff editorial opposing the proposed change on April 26, 2006, maybe cutting fall sophomore tutorials is too steep a price to pay for increased choice. But regardless of one’s personal feelings on the merits of the delayed choice, is it preposterous to adopt a system pushing back concentration choices and then neglect to enforce it. If the Faculty wishes to preserve courses like Social Studies 10 in their current state, then it should revert to its previous policies; if it believes that delayed choice is important—and we believe it is?...