Word: contently
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Over a year ago, President Clinton issued his recycling executive order. The president recognized that one of the biggest obstacles to successful recycling is the lack of end market for products made of materials that have already been collected and recycled; in other words, products with "postconsumer" recycled content. The President's executive order was designed to use the purchasing power of the federal government to create markets for this type of product and, in turn, for collected recyclables. The government has made some significant progress in this area in the first year of the order, but much remains...
...order directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to "streamline" the process for identifying new items with recycled content to be procured by the federal government. While the EPA met the deadline for proposing 21 new items last April, ranging from paper to carpet, six months later the recycled content standards for these items are still not finalized. Further delay only gives industry opponents of recycled content standards more time to lobby for weakening of the standards...
...kosher drinks. The hottest-selling alcoholic beverage is ``kosher vodka,'' with a label showing bearded rabbis in prayer shawls and Polish names in Hebrew-like lettering. There is also kosher beer and even kosher mineral water, not generally required of even the most orthodox of Jews, who are content to drink tap water...
...answer to each of these questions might well be `no.' The problem with the Smithsonian's decision to cancel the show does not hinge on its content (which may well have gone too far) so much as the notion that it is no longer permissible to inquire into the recesses of our own memory, critically and dispassionately--and publicly...
Phase I involved data gathering and a clear definition of the case for change in the MBA program. It identified key issues to be addressed by the initiative, including diversity, international content, social responsibility and ethics...