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...developed much of the technology that makes Web transactions possible--believes that XML offers nothing less than "the real possibility of fundamentally restructuring the way a given industry works." If you can get everyone in, say, the real estate business--the brokers, the escrow agents, the mortgage banks--to adopt XML, says Tenenbaum, "you really can start to think about changing the rules: paperless closings, real-time mortgage bidding...
Whether or not her transformation is convincing--and Plum largely carries it off--one hates to see the work as a whole adopt the values of its own object of scorn. Simply in retitling the work The Heiress, the Goetzes define Catherine's character through her financial prospects. Nor do we delight in witnessing Catherine exchange her youthful naivete for such a bitter, scaly adulthood. This sour apple doesn't fall far from Dr. Sloper's withered tree...
...task force, comprised of members from the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Supporter's Alliance and the Undergraduate Council, plans to begin campus-wide education efforts about the issue this year. It will also contact Faculty within the next few weeks to urge them to adopt the change if the issue is brought to them by the deans...
...full exercise of people's rights to govern the country and manage social affairs. Culturally, we will work hard to develop a scientific socialist culture for the people, a culture that is geared to the needs of modernization, of the nation, of the world and of the future, adopt a strategy of rejuvenating China through science and education and strive to raise the political and moral standards, as well as the scientific and cultural level, of the entire nation. In a word, it is to build China into a prosperous, strong, democratic and culturally advanced modern China...
With all the competing interests Clinton had to take into account, his proposal is probably as politically astute is it could be. "It buys off corporate opposition up front by throwing subsidies at companies to adopt 'green' energy practices," observes Jerry Taylor, director of natural-resources studies at the Cato Institute, a Washington research organization. And while he would have preferred a stronger plan, the EDF's Oppenheimer likes the fact that Clinton wants immediate tax credits for energy efficiency...