Word: manuals
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...persuasive call to arms, the report is peppered with success stories: Marmot cites the national pension plan in Botswana, which shows that even poor nations manage to provide income security to their elderly; and an Indian rural employment guarantee, which assures workers a minimum number of days of paid manual labor for the state, demonstrating that the poor can still give workers some measure of job security. With better organization, the report authors believe, biological problems like infectious disease can also be brought under control through social policy. Mexico has in a matter of decades consigned widespread diarrheal diseases...
...restrained e-mail inquiry - by the Federal Highway Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation. An e-mail was sent to the division offices in each state to remind them to be mindful of the signs, which it turns out have been prohibited since 1988 by the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices - the manual that governs federally funded "road things," as Doug Hecox, spokesperson for the FHWA puts it. "The response is we've seen none of those signs. They're not out there," Hecox says...
...that Atlanta probably bought a bunch of signs back in the late 70s, early 80s and maybe weren't aware of the change," Hecox says. Logical as that might seem, there are likely other gender-specific signs still being used that are not subject to the regulations, because the manual regulates signage on public roadways and the right of way areas on both sides of the road but does not regulate signs used in private construction. Then again, private construction companies and contractors do purchase their signs from some of the same businesses as the FHWA division offices in each...
...therapeutic optimism' - thinking that with the availability of certain treatments in the past nine years or so, the disease is curable and they are not infectious," Mayer says, adding that the result of his study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, will guide a national draft manual for AIDS social workers, to help them identify high-risk behaviors in the community...
Those number-loving few who actually know the statistics - are they any good as surgeons? Maybe. It depends on whether their manual skills are as precisely honed as their math skills. I can only say that I will not be quizzing anyone on multivariate analysis when picking out the surgeon to do my back...