Word: clear
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...want to see the world's richest governments keep the commitments they have made to Africa. These two have also argued that trade and investment will be more important than aid. But while business grows, African leaders at the International Monetary Fund conference in Tanzania in March made clear that development assistance is still needed too, for now. Kathy McKiernan, Global Communications Director, One, WASHINGTON...
...correctly identify organic cotton as problematic in your article on ecological intelligence but fail to suggest the clear alternative: industrial (nondrug) hemp. The crop, which can be used as an alternative to cotton as well as a base for fuels and plastics, can grow with rainwater and requires no pesticides. The fact that the U.S., unlike most industrialized nations, continues to prohibit hemp deserves some serious attention in these dire times. Tim Mensching, ASTORIA...
Obama's efforts to change us carry a clear political risk. Republicans already portray him as a nanny-state scold, an élitist Big Brother lecturing us about inflating our tires and reading to our kids. We elected a President, not a life coach, and we might not like elected officials' challenging our right to be couch potatoes. Obama's aides seem to favor nudges that preserve free choice over heavy-handed regulation, an approach Thaler and Sunstein, the co-authors of Nudge, call "libertarian paternalism." But it's still paternalism, and Sunstein will have the power...
...Joseph talks, you can practically feel the energy rising. This is still Florida; the sun is still shining; how clear is your vision? Gina, a special-ed teacher, and her husband Kurt, a contractor, have already missed out on two houses because they didn't bid fast enough. "Now it's every man for himself," Kurt says. "You have to play fair, put in a decent price." And then, just maybe, there will be rewards for the patient and prudent. "Someone else's loss," he says, "is another's blessing...
...Afghanistan and Iraq but were unable to handle the often brutal and unnecessary requirements of being a recruiter here at home. Mark's story is a morality tale about another hidden cost of those wars--the toll on those trying to persuade others to serve. As Mark makes clear, we have to reform the way the Army finds new soldiers; the current system is unfair to both the recruiters and those they recruit...