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...paradoxical that employers need to provide incentives for people to improve their own health," says Michael Follick, a behavioral psychologist at Brown University and president of the consultancy Abacus Employer Health Solutions...
...Mont Folik (real name: Mont Follick), 70, wuntym (1945-55) Inglish Laboryt M.P. hu twys introdust bils dezynd tu reform fonetekli dhe speling ov dhe Inglish langwij, inventor ov a sirkular rotating tuthbrsh, wuntym Inglish profesor at dhe Universiti ov Madrid and Sekretri tu dhe lat Aga Ron; in London. Follick's first bill lost by just three votes. During the debate, a Tory M.P. wondered if Follick proposed to spell water u-o-o-r-t-e-r, pointed out that "some Cockneys say wa'er and Americans say watter, but how do the Scotsmen...
...week for nearly five hours the House of Commons debated the pros & cons of his bill to make simplified spelling compulsory in all British schools, films and copyrighted literature. No foreigner, the bill provided, would be naturalized until he had mastered the new spelling. "Fourteen million schoolchildren," pleaded Dr. Follick, "are wasting their time over [the old] spelling." (One hundred fifty "fed-up" schoolboys wrote in to cry "hear, hear!") A simpler English comprehensible to foreigners, he went on, would be of inestimable value to international relations. Tory M.P. Christopher Hollis made a shrewd comment on this motion. Said Hollis...
Tory M.P. and Punch Editor Sir Alan (A. P.) Herbert wanted to know how Follick's phonetics would cope with the word water. "I think," said Herbert, "the Hon. Member for Loughborough proposes to spell it 'uoorter.' Some cockneys leave out the T and call it 'wa'er.' Americans say 'watter,' but how do the Scotsmen say it?" Glasgow's John Rankin volunteered: "We pronounce it whuskey...
When the final vote was taken, the bill was defeated by a narrow margin of 87 to 84. "It's a great moral victory," said Dr. Follick. "We shall...