Word: blueprint
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...former general counsel of GE. Heineman's goal is to keep CEOs out of the Hall of Shame--no one wants to be the next Jeff Skilling. "The generals will be held to even higher standards than the troops," Heineman warns. But even if chieftains follow his comprehensive blueprint for integrity, Heineman believes that perfection, alas, is unattainable: "We don't need, and won't get, saints in our corner offices." But CEOs, he argues, must learn to walk the walk, as well as talk the talk...
Some of these lessons were applied last year in responding to the Virginia Tech school shooting and the Minneapolis bridge collapse. On May 5, the fund released a detailed blueprint of its methods; it will, unfortunately, prove useful again...
...students’ blueprint will in the future be copied for hospitals in Haiti and other rural areas. Beyond this, the Design School students also want to help make humanitarianism a bigger part of the architectural field. They have established their own non-profit organization, called Model of Architecture Serving Society, which connects aspiring architects to projects like this hospital...
...inherent in any method of execution," and held that the Constitution condemns only "substantial" or "objectively intolerable" risks. Six other justices shared the chief's conclusion that Kentucky's approach passed muster, but only two of them - Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito - were willing to sign the chief's blueprint for deciding how much risk is too much, which included the vague standard that challengers must show that there were alternatives that were "feasible" and "readily implemented" that would "significantly" reduce a risk of severe pain...
...World Health Organization (WHO) and other global health bodies are working to remind us of that fact. On March 31 the American Public Health Association (APHA) launched its first blueprint for combating the health impacts of climate change, and on April 7, WHO will dedicate its annual World Health Day to the intersection between disease and global warming. The message is that severe climate change could fundamentally weaken global public health, that doctors need to be ready to deal with the consequences - and that there is a moral case to be made for reducing carbon emissions to save future lives...