Word: efforts
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...fund industry. Only this time it's from Brussels. Fresh E.U. proposals would require hedge funds, private equity and a host of other alternative investment funds to meet tougher regulation before they can market to investors in the region. The legislation - tabled for discussion in late April in an effort to shore up investor protection while reducing risk - has attracted growing criticism. London-based AIMA, a global hedge-fund industry group, calls proposed disclosure requirements bureaucratic. Kinetic Partners, a consultancy for the U.K. hedge-fund industry, reckons meeting stricter capital requirements and risk-management rules could cost British funds...
...study, Lyubomirsky found that people who did the same acts of kindness day after day for 10 weeks actually got less happy. But those who systematically varied their good deeds, got a boost. And, logically enough, effort counted. Letters of gratitude that reflected serious effort brought more satisfaction than those that seemed written routinely or out of duty. On the other hand, Lyubomirsky has also found that people who are clinically depressed "got less happy writing gratitude letters," perhaps because the effort was too much...
...often distorted lecture): “I . . . believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable. . . . However, to understand takes time and effort, something that not all people are willing to give. For others, their experiences limit their ability to understand the experiences of others. Other[s] simply do not care. . . . I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences but I accept my limitations. I willingly...
...weeks, Facebook is going to unveil a new privacy policy aimed at getting users to share information with everyone on the Internet. It is the next move in Facebook’s campaign to unseat Twitter as the web’s preferred venue for microblogging. But in its effort to out-tweet Twitter, Facebook is asking its users to make far more of their personal information accessible to many more people. The new privacy rules thus present us with an opportunity to ask a question that has been posed many times before: With how many people are you comfortable...
...Sphere of influence" is a term of diplomatic art, which is often invoked by the Russian government and Western nations in discussing plans for a NATO expansion and the European Commission's Eastern Partnership effort. In his speech, Obama distinguished between Europe's efforts to grow its diplomatic relations with former Soviet bloc countries and Russia's efforts to keep significant influence over its neighboring nations. "America will never impose a security arrangement on another country. For any country to become a member of an organization like NATO, for example, a majority of its people must choose to [join]," Obama...