Word: contently
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Voluntary testing and recalls have clearly failed to stop lead-painted children's jewelry from entering the U.S. market. After the CPSC recalled 150 million pieces of toy jewelry in 2004, new guidelines "urged manufacturers generally to reduce the lead content of their products." Since then at least 21 million more pieces of children's jewelry--including 6 million this year alone--have been recalled because of lead-poisoning risk, ranging from $3 fake-diamond rings sold at Big Lots! to $95 Juicy Couture charm bracelets. The CPSC recommended a federal ban on lead exceeding 0.06% by weight in children...
...world has become an interconnected village, community service has gone global as well. More and more Americans are ambassadors of goodwill, no longer content to let Washington alone define our nation's links to the world. Every day I learn about another inspiring and ingenious effort by Americans to make connections, share some know-how and improve the world...
...Orwellian. Consider the first category. If someone is forced, by law or by social pressure or any other reason, to "volunteer" for a necessary job that he or she otherwise would not take, someone else is going to lose that job. This someone else presumably was or would be content with what the job paid - at least content enough not to quit. Now he or she is unemployed, and someone else who doesn't want the job is stuck with it. What's the point...
...have more to say in the future," says president Miles Flint. Sony Ericsson would follow Nokia's tactic of slowly building up to a full-on Web services push. In the last couple of years, Nokia has taken many small steps, tying phones into Yahoo, Flickr photo sharing and content from Turner Broadcasting, among others. Last fall, it launched a music Web site called Music Recommenders fronted by David Bowie and meant primarily as a music referral site. This summer it acquired media sharing site Twango and struck a deal with Microsoft to put Windows Live on Nokia phones, allowing...
...attorney, Edward M. Little, said that Plotkin accepted responsibility for his actions, which included paying an analyst at Merrill Lynch to leak information on pending mergers and acquisitions and paying two employees of a printing company to reveal the content of Business Week magazine ahead of publication...