Word: adopter
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...their independence in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the tiny nation (pop. 1.35 million) has managed to put itself on the edge of far more than just geography. It was the first former Soviet republic to introduce its own currency, and the first European country to adopt a flat tax system, now widely copied in the rest of Eastern Europe. It has also become one of the most technologically advanced places on the planet. You can use your mobile phone to pay for parking your car, buy bus tickets and check your children's school grades. More...
...charge for, say, a missed mental health appointment, appears on a student’s termbill, then a student’s parents, or anyone else who views a student’s termbill, might discover a medical detail that the student had wished to keep private. UHS should adopt the same policy for paying a “dinka fee” that they do at the UHS Pharmacy: a student can choose to term-bill the fee, or the student can choose to pay it in person. This, of course, would require a student to actually...
...let’s not forget that he was banging Angelina Jolie for a few years. His curt response to Roger about pursuing Amanda is even a possible jab at his former wife—“it’s not like you were getting ready to adopt a Chinese baby together.” And this is just one of the numerous examples that exemplify Thornton’s penchant for dry, but funny, deliveries. Next to Thornton, Heder is, well, emasculated. His “Napoleon Dynamite” typecasted schtick of the anti-hero-we?...
...Stanford provost did not propose simply to leave early admission policies as they stand now. Instead, he wrote, colleges should “universally adopt nonbinding early admission programs, and then apply the same or higher standards to the early decisions as they do to the regular round. It’s a solution that’s fair for the students and practical for the colleges...
...doing enough to hold down the cost of prescription drugs. Brown has long been a critic of these trade deals, which more moderate Democrats such as President Clinton have in the past supported, and if his populist rhetoric works, expect to see other candidates adopt such anti-trade rhetoric in the Midwest in 2008 to appeal to voters worried about the continuing decline of manufacturing jobs. DeWine has a history of winning close races, and for all the attention focused on it as a swing state, Ohio has long had two Republican senators and a Republican governor. But nearly...