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...business: it takes time for the first results to start showing." That's a motto that could apply to his own career. Unlike Villepin or Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy, who have changed positions in and out of government over the past four years, Borloo has stayed fixed on his single - but substantial - brief. That focus has kept him near the top of popularity polls for the past year, while he's watched his colleagues' ratings fluctuate, and it means that he won't even contemplate failing in his task. "Failure isn't an option. Not for them...
...Hauser Hall, Browner, the EPA chief during the entire Clinton administration, said that if “we don’t take action against climate change, we risk being the first generation to pass on to the next generation a problem that it can’t fix.” Calling for a “bipartisan, multinational, multi-generational” coalition to address climate change, Browner began her speech by rattling off nearly a dozen numbers to highlight the scope of the problem. Among them were the 36 cubic miles of Arctic ice?...
...Some people today want to see a quick fix to the trade imbalance. And if there was one, believe us, we would have tried to get that by now with the Chinese. But in the new global economy, there is no quick fix. That's not the way this is going to work." said Dennis Wilder, the point person on East Asia issues for the National Security Council. He went on to note that China had embarked on a new five-year plan that would move them toward a more consumer-driven economy, which should in turn lead...
...There is a lot of discussion about how to fix education. Technology can certainly play a role. Students and teachers at my school are thrilled that our building is undergoing a multimillion dollar renovation to include state-of-the-art technology in all classrooms. Kids will be captivated by multimedia geography presentations and interactive math labs. But the old fundamentals will still apply. Students rely on compassionate teachers to guide, to tutor, to listen, to laugh and to cry with them. Teachers provide the most important link in the educational process-the human...
...mental health personnel, our resources will attempt to address them,” he says, citing numerous sessions and conferences across the country. But given that online gambling is “still a new issue,” McLoughlin says, “no campus has developed a fix-all solution...