Word: path
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...launched in February of this year and has adopted four principles: quality, affordable health insurance for every American; individual responsibility for protecting and maintaining health; improved value for health care dollars spent; and broad participation in finding a solution. Their hope is to have the system on the path to change by 2012 by making it a centerpiece of the 2008 election debate...
...hear time and time again people pursuing those [consulting and i-banking] jobs because there is a very defined path for getting them, and in politics and public service it has always been more difficult than that,” she said after yesterday’s meeting, adding that she thought internships are “uniquely important” for things like political hiring...
...protect him for much longer, however. On Saturday, Mugabe told the Zimbabwean daily, The Herald: "Once [the bishops] turn political, we regard them as no longer spiritual and our relations with them would be conducted as if we are dealing with political entities and this is quite a dangerous path they have chosen for themselves...
...while the technological path to climate-change action is clear, the politics are getting even more complicated. As economic growth shifts to the developing world - especially in Asia - so will future carbon emissions. So whether the world can effectively combat climate change will be determined by countries like Indonesia and India - and especially China, which could pass the U.S. as the world's top carbon emitter any day. European nations have staked out bold positions on carbon cutting, and even in the U.S. momentum is gaining on real climate-change legislation. But if growing developing countries choose to ignore global...
...would be a mistake to abandon the idea of progress because history does not follow a linear path to social harmony or because most progress—though certainly not all—has an embarrassingly Western origin. As logical positivists like Wittgenstein showed, it is a “pseudo-problem” to argue over which value system or civilization is objectively superior, but in empirical terms of human happiness, progress is a fact, one that it would be a disservice to human history and the future to deny...