Word: adopting
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...rider is unique to New York, notes Pierro. "Having the obligations spelled out makes the person acting under power of attorney subject to virtually the same rules as someone who operates as a trustee," he says. Might other states adopt the rider? "They'll likely wait and see New York's experience with it," he says...
...measures that benefit patients - reducing the length of stay in hospitals, for example, and introducing automated drug distribution - while refusing to push through those that may curtail care. There will be many aspects of McKinsey's confidential report not pertaining to job cuts that the NHS will most likely adopt, says John Appleby, chief economist of the King's Fund, a British health-care think tank. (Read:"Is Britain's Health-Care System Really That...
...newly elected Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes will ease the Mano Duro policy and, instead, implement social programs aimed at dissuading the country's youth into joining gangs. But, says Samuel Logan, an expert on Latin American gang culture, "The current administration still has not made an effort to to adopt a less punitive position in dealing with the gangs." Ironically, one of the loudest advocates for rolling back Mano Duro ways Poveda, who photographed the El Salvaor civil war for TIME in the 1980s. Poveda said in a recent interview that El Salvador's political corruption and abject poverty made...
...worth chancing as long as they don't install a guy wearing epaulettes in the president's chair. In that scenario, a full-bore U.S. aid cut-off won't kick in by default - and there's always the possibility, they'll reason, that the White House won't adopt enough punitive steps to make them cry uncle...
...Pollack-Johnson said. “It took long to figure out what the joke was, but she was as brilliant as ever.” Former student Lili P. Porten called her dissertation adviser a “truly beloved” woman who was able to adopt that rare fusion of brilliance and kindness. “I have dozens of e-mails from people since her death...she changed their lives,” Porten said. “She would find the insight you didn’t know you had, and that was really wonderful...