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Fisher said that while most end-of-life care is currently determined by the health care systems, patients should be able to align their own care with their individual preferences...
...this year, for the first time ever, things went exactly according to plan. It’s like that time on the SAT’s when you got six B’s in a row. Every now and then, the probabilities align the right way, and produce something unusually ordered. Often, we find the opposite remarkable in sports—we are astounded by the miraculous upset, when David defeats Goliath. This time, though, we can appreciate the opposite: Goliath, beating David, over and over again, in a stunning and rare display of the triumph of rational order...
...that won't happen until government sends a strong signal to producers and energy consumers. And the only way to do that, Krupp argues, is through a carbon cap-and-trade system that sets an implicit price on dirty fossil fuel, making clean energy instantly more competitive. "You align the economic signals with the imperative that we have to save the planet and ourselves," says Krupp. "When that happens, everything changes...
True, but mobile phones didn't deliver the promised goodies-enabled technologies on schedule, and consumers refused to align their media purchases for Vivendi's benefit. Those are two reasons that Messier's successors at Vivendi have sold off many of its media units, while other convergence players, like Time Warner (owner of TIME), are considering disaggregation. "The emphasis now is being the best in the media activities you're focused on, not having all aspects of the sector covered," says a Vivendi official who asks not to be identified. Indeed, though Vivendi recently reacquired control of French telecom Cegetel...
...their own books because of familiarity not profit, faculty members said.Daniel T. Gilbert, who teaches Psychology 1: “Introduction to Psychology,” said that he believes when professors use textbooks they wrote in their classes, it allows students to understand the lectures better because both align.“I try to teach the material in the best way I know,” Hartl said. “And I know intimately the textbook and so can make the lectures complimentary. Together [they] make a nice fit.”Indeed, Mankiw asserts that...