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...study also found that physicians failed to live up to standards in preventing the waste of medical resources, with over one-third of physicians accommodating a patient who insisted on a test that the doctor knew to be unnecessary...
...will continue to honor what Gleitsman stood for when giving the awards. “We ought to be daring because agents of social change are often controversial. That goes with the territory,” said Gergen, who is also a professor at the Kennedy School. About one-third of the money will go toward the awards, according to Gergen. Another third will fund student fellowships that reward social entrepreneurship, and the last third will finance visiting scholars and other academic programs. Cheri Rosché, Gleitsman’s partner and the secretary and treasurer of the Gleitsman Foundation...
...money in the region, continuing to support the regional character of the land,” said Crista Martin, director for marketing and communications for HUDS. “Where appropriate, we always source locally.”FROM FARM TO FASDuring the fall, local growers supply HUDS with one-third of its produce, including apples, cranberries, squash, and potatoes, according to Zdeb.In the early spring, only 6 percent of HUDS food is produced by local farms because harsh New England winters limit what can be grown.HUDS receive cartons upon cartons of local produce from Costa Fruit and Produce...
...Another of Rudd's key election promises was to pull Australian troops out of Iraq. But not all of them, and not right now. Instead, Rudd has said he will "begin negotiations with the Americans and Iraqis" on the withdrawal, in mid-2008, of one-third of the Australian troops in Iraq and the Gulf. A thousand will remain, to the dismay of Labor's antiwar left wing, and more may be sent to train Iraqi soldiers in Jordan or Oman. Rudd will consider sending more troops to join the 1,000 in Afghanistan...
...compete with large-scale commercial enterprises has demanded their demise. Yet, according to Samir Amin’s calculations, “in 50 years’ time, industrial development, even in the fanciful hypothesis of a continued growth rate of seven percent annually, could not absorb even one-third of this reserve...