Word: grayness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that I figured I might be able to get. I thought people would watch me because I was different. Silly goose. We turned out to be a big embarrassment to MSNBC. In October 2002, if you were a board member of General Electric, you didn't want a retired, gray-haired talk show host popping off against this war or this president. It wasn't good for business. If you were against the war, you risked being called liberal. And if your cable channel was called liberal, you panicked...
Medical procedures, for instance, rack up massive energy tabs - especially surgeries, emergency services and pathology laboratory tests. "Enormous amounts of energy are required to build and run high-tech systems in common use - MRIs, CT scans, etc. - with many running 24 hours a day," says Pamela Gray, a trustee of the Transition Network, a U.K.-based organization that supports community-level initiatives to improve sustainability and combat climate change. Further, nearly all pharmaceuticals are made from petroleum derivatives, and so are medical materials (think rubber gloves and intravenous tubing). And then there's transportation: transferring equipment, supplies and lab samples...
...Transition Network's Gray suggests more localized health-care efforts, including networks of trained medical workers, educational programs teaching nutrition, first-aid and self-care, and expert-patient teaching opportunities. She proposes that by increasing insurance coverage of so-called alternative medicine - including low-energy practices like acupuncture, homeopathy, nutritionists and herbalists - more patients might seek greener care...
...peeking through the dark employment landscape - if you're seeking work in the right places. With consumers curbing discretionary spending, it makes sense to home in on recession-proof industries. "Health care has been the bulwark of the economy," says John Challenger, CEO of the global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. With proper medical attention a bedrock need, Challenger says a "wide swath of companies" have a need for physical therapists, nurses, medical records technologists and digital imaging specialists. Healthcare is also the industry showing the most growth in unionization, says Gordon Pavey, director of collective bargaining...
...writes, “I do not think the East has spoken with so a beautiful a voice since the Gitanjali”—Gibran does not speak for “the East.” Quite the contrary, he speaks from somewhere in-between, the gray area that is perhaps hardest to define. It is his unique struggle to reconcile the values of both worlds that render his work a worthy read. Not only are his views of child-rearing surprisingly modern for the 20s, but he also incorporates such stereotypically American ideas as that...