Word: developable
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What does it mean? Over time, all countries develop a web of regulations to protect their industries from foreign competition. Some apply only to particular countries; others are broadly based. The measures can be as transparent as quotas on beef or customs duties on consumer products. Or they can be as sneaky as some quarantine regulations, the non-recognition of professional qualifications, or investment-screening protocols. This agreement tries to dismantle many bilateral barriers. In general, Australia's is an open economy that has been reducing its industrial protection (often unilaterally) for 30 years. But political fiddling and the idiosyncrasies...
...built and delivered 567 free doghouses for dogs chained outdoors without shelter and provided low or no-cost spay/neuter services for 6,046 cats and dogs. PETA also launched international campaigns against animal abuse at KFC, Iams and PETCO, worked with the state of Virginia and many municipalities to develop humane wildlife-management strategies and lobbied Congress to enforce the federal Humane Slaughter Act and to honor its commitment to encourage alternatives to animal experiments. These substantive actions illustrate PETA’s dedication to furthering the causes that its publicity campaigns propound...
Like all schools, Franklin must hit 100% proficiency by the 2013-14 school year. And each mandated improvement in between is based on comparing different classes, not on watching how the same students develop over time. "Our biggest fear [is], how do we sustain the growth? Can we jump up to the next level? I'm not sure," says Muscatine superintendent Tom Williams. Muscatine's 11 schools were receiving about $750,000 in federal money, and that increased to $850,000 with the new law. But state and local tax money pays the remaining 98% of the budget...
...doping war is essentially a pharmacological arms race, with chemists in illegal labs tinkering with steroid formulations so that the drugs can perform their muscle-building jobs while sidestepping tests designed to detect them. The testers, for their part, strive to discover the existence of the new drugs and develop ways to screen for them, driving the bad guys to modify them further, and so on. "By definition," says Rob Manfred, a labor-relations executive with Major League Baseball, "the people trying to catch users of performance-enhancing drugs are going to be one step behind." In the current case...
...elements of his personality, he may soon get to do it for an even wider audience. The networks are after him to do a sitcom. "I'm stalking him," says former NBC president Warren Littlefield, who is currently an independent television producer and one of several executives trying to develop a Toby Keith show. "He's a personality, he's a performer, and he's funny. Last time I checked, that's what makes for great television." Keith acknowledges he's tempted. "I'd want my show to be funny but emotional too," he says. "I love the Hawkeye...