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Frist said that his plan would include “substantial increases” in funding to advance research and bolster the nation’s ability to respond to emergencies. “I speak of the creation of secure stores of treatments and vaccines and vast networks of distribution,” said Frist, who—prior to being elected to the Senate in 1994—was a renowned heart and lung transplant surgeon...
...have power to create needs rather than respond to needs," Dayal says. Prahalad calls those arguments patronizing. "The poor are very value conscious. They have to be," he says. "If people have no sewerage and drinking water, should we also deny them television and cell phones?" And if companies bolster the bottom line in the process, so much the better. "It's absolutely possible to do very well while doing good," he says...
...will come in the form of a $30,000-per-year “study center” initiative tucked inside the $50 million package unveiled Monday by University administrators to bolster the status of women and minorities at Harvard...
Michael Ware chooses to keep quiet about certain aspects of Baghdad life: the careful, tedious planning to bolster the security of staff members as they gather reporting, the anxious waiting for a colleague who has not shown up on time, the instinctive action taken in a dangerous situation to avoid disaster. As TIME's bureau chief in the bomb-blasted city, Ware has been through his share of harrowing silence. Yet it has not hampered his ability to put into words the explosive stories that have made our coverage of the conflict in Iraq stand out over the past...
...speeches were the highlights of a week of intense jockeying by both the White House and the Kremlin to bolster their positions in advance of the summit. Shortly after his talk, Reagan convened a minisummit in New York with U.S. allies. He met for two hours after lunch, and again for two hours at dinner, with the government leaders of Canada, Britain, West Germany, Italy and Japan. He also held bilateral sessions with each of these leaders. (French President Franois Mitterrand boycotted the proceedings out of pique that he had not been consulted before the meetings were scheduled...