Word: adopting
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...move beyond credit to offer insurance and savings products so that women can save to pay their children's school fees and invest in healthcare for their families, and as the industry becomes increasingly competitive, understanding customer behavior is becoming more important. In this way, microfinance has come to adopt [more traditional] business practices...
...It’s one more reason to add to the growing list of reasons why physicians should adopt electronic health records,” Simon said. “If further studies can confirm our findings, all organizations that pay the price of malpractice suits would encourage electronic health records...
...plan for the species. Several smaller ICCAT members such as Guatemala and Panama had initially backed a proposal supported by the U.S. and environmental groups to halt all bluefin-fishing for nine months of the year and to crack down hard on violators. But European officials persuaded them to adopt instead a reduced quota of 22,000 tons in 2009 and 19,950 tons in 2011. That certainly represents a sharp drop from last year's estimated global sales of 61,000 tons of bluefin tuna - and even from this year's official quota of about 29,000 tons...
...Commission follows up its report with firm action, this could force European drugmakers to adopt global strategies that go beyond merely stamping on cheap rivals...
...Cleary insists, however, that the technology is only a small part of what makes SmartWater work to reduce crime. "It's a policing strategy and a brand-development strategy," he says, brandishing a hefty blue file that lays out the step-by-step program police and allied agencies must adopt in order to achieve the 40% to 50% drop in burglary rates SmartWater says it can attain...