Word: catalystic
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...grandparents worked to keep a roof overhead, and they didn't much bandy about terms like career development and change catalyst. Today, why we work is much more complex. There's still the roof, of course, but success is also measured by the freedom to pursue a lifelong passion, exploit a hidden talent or even try to save one small corner of the world at a time. No amount of success seems to scratch the itch; a survey by Netshare, a career site for high-earning executives, found that almost half its subjects are actively trying to transition into...
...there are practical steps that people can take.Sen believes that fostering debate about identity and the choices of allegiance that people make will allow us to break down assumptions and improve global communication. “Identity and Violence” provokes readers and may well serve as the catalyst for debate that Sen desires...
...success that led to the prize to these “teammates” in Asia and in the US. “It’s because of the teamwork,” Ashton said. “I just happened to be the [teams’] catalyst.” This same teamwork later helped save his life. During an expedition to Borneo 15 years ago with his professor from graduate school, Ashton was bitten by a venomous snake on Mt. Kinabalu, the tallest mountain on the island. Two other members of the expedition carried him down...
...certainly the only soldier to have gone to his punishment in such a public manner, speaking at anti-war gatherings, enlisting the services of a D.C.-based public relations agency, and speaking to his supporters by video via a web site (thankyoult.org). Watada has not become a grassroots catalyst of antiwar activism like Cindy Sheehan, who has written in support of him. Still, last month, after the military court refused to hear his arguments on the legality of the Iraq War, his civilian supporters held a "citizens hearing" near his base to air that part of the case...
...missing women case has been the catalyst for a sea change in public attitudes to illegal drugs in British Columbia. Vancouver now leads North America in treating addiction as a health and social problem as well as a crime. It hosts the continent's only supervised heroin injection site, as well as a clinic dispensing free heroin in a scientific trial. But not much has changed at street level in the Downtown Eastside. Some 15,000 injection-drug addicts, many of them mentally ill, are concentrated in Canada's most impoverished neighborhood. An estimated 1500 female addicts continue to sell...