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...putting a price on carbon dioxide and thus incentivizing industry to find a way to use less of it. "What better way to correct past [environmental] errors than to turn the creative energies of the free market in the other direction?" McCain said Tuesday. "In all its power, the profit motive will suddenly begin to shift and point the other way toward cleaner fuels, wiser ways and a healthier planet...
...press coverage, it merits a great deal of praise since not all roads should lead to lucrative private sector jobs. Programs like these are an important step towards eliminating a socioeconomic barrier to entry for public service. Significantly, it also incentivizes the best and the brightest to consider non-profit options right out of school...
...public service specific loan-repayment program is clear. It would enable students to pursue their ideal career without worrying about the monetary implications of the decision. Perhaps more importantly, it may even encourage students to take two years off and do charitable work before entering the for-profit workforce. Ultimately, it would allow some of our most crucial social institutions to have intelligent, motivated and driven college-graduates in their ranks...
...exactly the way the fashion industry looks at long-stemmed 14-year-old girls, exactly the way the celebrity culture gazes on Britney and Lindsay and Miley, exactly the way shoe-company reps scrutinize boys on basketball courts. Horses, fashion models, teen stars--they're all produced for maximum profit...
...ownership dispute first erupted in April 2007, when the for-profit company Odyssey filed claim to and extracted some 17 tons of silver coins and other treasure from the underwater site, moving the artifacts to an undisclosed storage facility near its company headquarters in Tampa. From the outset, Spain believed that the ship was Spanish, and that the excavation therefore amounted to an attack on its historical patrimony. Odyssey, on the other hand, argued that as salvager it had the right to a significant percentage of the reclaimed booty regardless of the ship's origins. And as recently as January...