Word: development
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...Such preventive measures form one of the cornerstones of the ongoing health-care debate - one of the few points on which nearly all sides can agree. The authors of the new study call for physicians to be reimbursed for heart-disease-prevention measures like working with their patients to develop weight-loss and smoking-cessation plans and to be allowed enough breathing room in their schedules to let them do good cardiac assessments. Schools and workplaces, the paper argues, should also be in on the prevention game. Since both are places where large numbers of people congregate, they are also...
...money at his disposal, Duncan is not making it easy to get. To qualify for the cash, states are being encouraged to remove laws limiting the expansion of public charter schools (which are typically exempt from union rules and other regulations), sign on to common standards, develop a strategy to turn around their worst-performing schools and work toward building better data systems...
China has replaced the U.S. as Japan's leading trading partner, and Hatoyama has said he would like Japan to develop more of an "equal" relationship with its American ally. That has raised concerns that the DPJ might tinker with some aspects of its security pact with the U.S. Such fears are probably unfounded; everyone in Japanese politics knows the alliance with the U.S. is the bedrock on which Japanese security rests. But as China grows in strength politically and economically, it is inevitable that any Japanese government will want to have close relations with Beijing as well as Washington...
...they had committed the worst crimes. A mile away in the local prison there were simply no resources. Cases can't go forward, witnesses are lost, and people stay in detention for many years at a stretch. [If I was] to do it over, I would try to develop a court within the national system. That would be my preference. Maybe not a court that costs $30 million a year like the Special Court, but an appropriate court...
...dangerously dispassionate Hungarian computer scientist who attracts men easily and abandons them even more effortlessly. All three face the challenge of watching others be engulfed by impulsive greed, betrayed by the very emotional defenses they once sought to construct. The novel’s failure, however, to carefully develop these individual subplots results in a storyline wholly devoid of momentum. Volpi comingles his characters with historical figures that invariably outshine the author’s creations. We are drawn more to Volpi’s sarcastic spin on Stalin and other Cold War stars than to Volpi?...