Word: catalystic
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...likely to keep working together. The reason is simple: socially and environmentally responsible investment makes good business sense. HSBC, Citigroup and ABN Amro all say that green issues are increasingly important when they consider funding global projects. In the future, "the Equator Principles will be seen as a catalyst for how banks conduct themselves in other areas of their business," says ABN Amro's Burrett. If that happens, activists in haz-mat suits will have to find another target...
...think it all depends on how effective the pressure is on Marcos. I call it P.F.C.: Pressure First Class. Now if that is continued, I think it could bring about some changes. I am inclined to believe that the letter that Reagan sent through Laxalt was the catalyst that made Marcos do what he just...
...Television and photographic crews are now required to leave the scene if violence breaks out in any of the 38 districts where the government has declared a "state of emergency." Says Deputy Minister of Information Louis Nel: "The presence of television and camera crews has proved to be a catalyst for further violence...
...Southeast Asia. In a dramatic performance piece, students symbolically stripped a boy of his home, clothing, and food as “Somewhere over the Rainbow” played in the background. The actors encouraged students to apply for the 2006 Aid Expedition to Southeast Asia through the Catalyst Foundation, an international volunteer organization dedicated to helping children in Vietnam...
...frigid November morning. Spirits were high, beer was on tap, and victory was in the air. But little did we know that our excitement spelled horror for the Boston Police Department (BPD). It was Harvard-Yale—the day of The Game. And it was the catalyst for a new “crack-down” on drinking, a reinvigoration of the puritanical principles that are the bane of every student’s existence...