Word: bearing
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These problems involve the management of public goods and everyone benefits from a successful resolution. Unfortunately, few are willing to bear the cost of resolving the problems. Countries will not undertake the necessary reforms to mitigate global warming, curb population growth, implement legal frameworks that protect human rights or invest in universal vaccination programs to halt the spread of disease because the individual country would bear the cost of the reform without exclusively benefiting from the outcome...
...contrast to the pastel pink-and-white motif of the women's offerings, men's products come in traditionally more masculine colors and bear the words "Skin Management" instead of the Mary Kay moniker...
Indeed, Jobs, more clearly than any of his contemporaries, recognized the computer as a tool not for top-down corporate repression but for bottom-up individual empowerment and creativity, a lifelong article of faith to which Apple and Pixar today bear living tribute. Before launching into his evangelistic spiel from the Flint Center stage last week, Jobs briefly eulogized Sony founder Akio Morita, grandfather of the consumer-electronics industry, who had died just a few days earlier. "He expressed his love for the human species in every product he made," Jobs said in a clear, quiet voice...
Administrators have hired consultants to offer their advice on improving Loker's popularity. And yet, even the recommendations of these professionals have done little to reverse the area's descent into irrelevance. Of course, bear in mind most of the consultants we know are the same folks whom we last saw passed out after last year's Owl Luau. Indeed, the only innovation that has saved Loker Commons thus far, the introduction of the fly-by, arrived not by way of corporate strategy, but because of persistent student requests...
...delight to see TIME's cover bearing a portrait of fantasy fiction's latest "wiz" kid, Harry Potter [BOOKS, Sept. 20]. As an author, I have despaired of the future of both writing and reading, given the plummeting literary standards and increasing indifference to learning in our era. In so dark an hour, it is nothing short of magical that what J.R.R. Tolkien called the "Tree of Tales" could put forth a green and growing shoot like the Harry books--a branch that can serve as a broomstick to bear us "lands away" and, better still, worlds within. Congratulations...