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...Ecolympics thus faces a "free-rider problem": Conscientious conservers have to share the economic reward of saving energy with everyone else, while heavy consumers can force the costs of their profligacy onto their fellows. Even the limited market incentive offered by Ecolympics--namely, Ben & Jerry's study breaks--cannot solve the free-rider problem as long as incentives go to large groups and not to individual consumers...
...what she regarded as socialism's sapping her country's strength. She determined to give enervated Britain a good shake and force it to become an economic and political world power once again. Arriving at 10 Downing Street, she embarked on policies that would encourage self-reliance and reward hard work. Her vision, she said, was "of a free, classless, open Britain...
...York City, Watson was one of a handful of internal candidates to succeed him. As deputy chief, she had directed the Westside Command Station, the site of Brown's initial experiment in Neighborhood Oriented Policing. (NOP, sometimes sneeringly called Nobody on Patrol, is a set of procedures designed to reward police officers for taking more initiative instead of merely responding to radio calls.) Even though Brown now confides that he had been grooming Watson as a potential police chief for Houston or elsewhere, she was hesitant to go after...
Only two men have the power to decide whether war breaks out. Saddam, once he is convinced that the U.S. really means to attack, could withdraw his troops from Kuwait and try for a deal that might reward him with territory, % oil and money from relieved Arab states. While many experts believe retreat would lead to his downfall, there is no clear evidence for that. Saddam has already handed back to Iran territory he seized in eight years of war. He is a ruthless dictator who does as he pleases...
...without the media, his frankness would never have reached the voters. He wanted to reap the benefits of his "straight shooting" style--but only if that reward was positive. If it impaired him, then the media was distorting his message...