Word: partnerships
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...Helping organize the pushback against the drive for data has been former House whip and legendary Democratic operator Tony Coelho, an epileptic who helped write the Americans with Disabilities Act and now leads the Partnership to Improve Patient Care. The partnership is an odd coalition of the drug companies, devicemakers and medical specialists who stand to lose the most from evidence-based medicine, joined by a variety of patient groups (some of whom also receive industry funding) concerned about access to care. Coelho says he welcomes effectiveness research if it can help doctors and patients make more informed decisions...
...these strongly worded condemnations with Obama's more tepid comments. "The President of the United States is supposed to lead the free world, not follow it," South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said on Sunday. So why has Europe, so often cast as the more timid side of the transatlantic partnership, responded more vigorously this time? The answer, according to Robin Niblett, director of the London-based international-relations think tank Chatham House, lies in the low-rumbling crisis in the background of the disputed election: Iran's nuclear program. (See five reasons to suspect Iran's election results...
...fell off the federal radar in recent years. Back when President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty in 1965, the Federal Government started funding summer-jobs programs for low-income youth. These efforts included the Neighborhood Youth Corps, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act and the Job Training Partnership Act. In 1999, however, federal commitment to low-income-youth employment was swallowed up by the Workforce Investment Act, which made summer jobs one of 10 priorities for certain federal dollars, as opposed to the only priority. Since then, many communities have seen opportunities dry up, especially for low-skill...
...rural America, there's not many private companies that are going to hire teenagers," says Bill Renick of the Mississippi Partnership Workforce Area. "You just don't have businesses on every corner in small-town Mississippi. I've got applications from kids from Sarah - a town which has maybe 200 people - and summer-job opportunities just don't normally come around for them." As a result, Renick says more than 10,000 applications were submitted for what will likely turn out to be about 1,600 jobs...
...Over the past year, Lukashenko has been increasingly turning his back on Russia, slowly allying his country with the West. So far, the move seems to be paying off. Belarus was included in the E.U.'s Eastern Partnership initiative, created last year to strengthen economic and political ties between Europe and six former Soviet states. Lukashenko's travel ban to Europe - issued after his 2006 re-election, which the U.S. and the E.U. maintain was rigged - has been lifted. And Belarus secured an additional $1 billion on a $2.4 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after Russia canceled...