Word: approach
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...still walk freely around here." A short drive away, in Chiveso, Gabriel Mangurenje, 39, says he has been beaten out of his home by ZANU mobs five times since 2000 and has lost two brothers, both MDC activists, to the violence. "Of course we want to see a peaceful approach," he says, "but we also want to see light at the end of the tunnel...
Bill Koegler, vice president of operations, thinks this model could be applied to any park. "We're taking the university approach - a mix of donations and pay for services," he says. Down the road, he adds, he wouldn't be averse to building an endowment with financial sponsorships of certain existing amenities in the park: restrooms, benches or holes of golf...
...coverage quickly overwhelmed the state's supply of primary-care doctors, driving up the time patients must wait to get routine appointments. It stands to reason that primary-care doctors could be similarly overwhelmed on a national scale. (See TIME's photos of the Cleveland Clinic and its approach to health care...
...White House strategic approach on energy legislation has also involved significant compromises that Obama has glossed over. Last month, Obama greeted the passage of a House energy bill with great fanfare, calling it a "bold and necessary" step and a "victory of the future over the past." He did not mention that the price of getting enough Democrats on board with the legislation was significant compromises of his previous pledges. During the campaign, Obama had proposed auctioning off carbon permits (for companies that weren't yet sufficiently energy efficient) and using that money for other green programs. But the final...
...most striking aspect of Obama's approach is not that the President has been forced to compromise on Capitol Hill. Such wheeling and dealing happens all the time, even when the majority in Congress shares a party affiliation with the White House. It is rather that the President has, with rare exception, declined to highlight these compromises or take hard-line stands, even as he continues to declare in speeches and statements his determination to force through sweeping change in the way Washington operates. Despite Republican suspicion of Obama's ideological bent, he has proven to govern as a pragmatist...