Word: operationalize
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But traditional welfare programs have failed so badly that any new option looks attractive. Texas was the state quickest to take up the possibilities offered by charitable choice. Last December, Governor George W. Bush directed state agencies to include religious institutions in the operation of their programs. In June, Bush...
Telemarketers work differently. They are a fraternity of sorts, says Somers. "There are certain bars in Las Vegas where they are known to hang out." Their shops are a kind of floating network of operations that start up, close and reopen on an instant's notice. When active, they run...
But it's not champagne-and-caviar time just yet for Vinagradov and his fellow cosmonauts. Not only do they have to seal off Spektr, there's also an argument back on earth over the worth of the battered module. "The Russians are eager to repair Spektr and get it...
Stephan Fantauzzo, head of Indiana's public-employee union, has seen a lot over the years, but nothing beats the day his auto mechanics came to him and said they didn't want their raises. Indianapolis had just put out to competitive bidding the business of repairing city vehicles, and...
Auto repair is only one of more than 70 municipal operations Indianapolis' Republican Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, the nation's leading exponent of "competing out," has spun off in five years in office. The city's wastewater-treatment plants are being run by a private company, at a projected savings of...