Word: contributor
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...deal had some positive elements, but it was, 'eh'," says John Aboud, a WGA strike captain and contributor to the strike blog UnitedHollywood.com. "The pressure on everyone has been building. The creative community on an emotional level can't afford to lose the Oscars, and the companies can't afford to lose them on a financial level...
...Skywalker, the reluctant hero with a slow learning curve who realizes his true potential just in time to lead his team when it needs him the most. The part of Han Solo—the cocky and selfish talent who eventually sees the light and develops into an essential contributor to his team’s success—falls into the sure hands of wide receiver Plaxico Burress.While it is often tempting to root for the Dark Side, most of us relate better to the redeeming qualities of the underdog who compensates for a lack of talent with...
...female Muslim doctors or dentists who decide to stay at home rather than treat male patients - explode old notions of what it means to be a professional. "If you're calling yourself a professional, you're saying you have a skill set that makes you competitive, valuable and a contributor," says one young Muslim art curator. "But how much are you contributing if you're ghettoizing yourself? How valuable are you if you're not prepared to embrace the culture of an organization...
Still, says Bowers, who is also a frequent contributor to the "Ask the Doc" forum on the AIDS Education Global Information System website, keeping the AIDS pandemic in the news is vital: "Any press is good press if they spell your name right," Bowers says, adding that the complex science needs to be explained to the public in easily understood ways. That message, however, is often conflicted. Some doctors have said they're willing to give tenofovir as a preventive to their very sexually active patients, even in the absence of conclusive scientific evidence that it works...
...grams of powder cocaine and the same sentence for possession of 50 grams of the drug in crack form. These guidelines were first crafted in the 1980s: While the social climate of the period—in which crack was seen as a unique and devastating contributor to crime, violence, and urban decay—may help to explain such disparate punishments, it hardly justifies them. Though few today see crack cocaine as a more dangerous threat to American society as other highly addictive drugs, legal observers have noticed one important difference between crack and other drugs: those convicted...