Word: self-help
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...actor is needed to ensure that this new government can address economic problems in Zimbabwe with foreign aid. Great Britain has reacted skeptically to the political agreement, doubting whether it will cause actual changes. It has offered to help with financial resources once Zimbabwe demonstrates a certain degree of self-help, but Britain’s safe approach may miss an opportunity for international aid that America must not let slip. South Africa remains bound by its proximity and local trade deals with Zimbabwe, in addition to its role as a neutral mediator in African politics...
...Purpose Driven Life. Beyond its striking opening assertion - "It's not about you" (it's about God and you) - the book, like its predecessor, was a crystal-clear blueprint, in this case for extending Sunday spirituality to the rest of one's life. It employed the tropes of the self-help genre (A 40-day program! Exercises!) to chart a user's guide to living midstream Evangelical doctrine. (On God's wanting believers to be a "living sacrifice": "The problem with a living sacrifice is that it can crawl off the altar. We sing Onward, Christian Soldiers on Sunday, then...
Faced with a combination of falling sales, an increasingly unstable U.S. economy and rising gasoline prices, General Motors Corp. has unleashed another huge wave of budget and financial cuts that the company's top executives described as a "self-help" plan designed to stave off any potential "liquidity crisis." The cutbacks appear to involve every level of GM's operations, including shedding the Hummer and decreasing its support for NASCAR. Said GM's chairman and chief executive officer Richard Wagoner: "Conditions are extremely unsettled. We're trying to protect the enterprise long-term. We're going to have to ride...
...greater public-health hazard than tobacco. It is associated with an increase in cancer, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, skin problems, depression, gastrointestinal disorders, heart failure - the list goes on. We should attack obesity exactly as we have gone after tobacco - with a national advertising campaign, more self-help groups, taxes on certain foods and the right to sue food manufacturers and restaurants. John M.R. Kuhn, M.D., Weston, Wisconsin...
...believe obesity is a far greater public-health hazard than tobacco. It is associated with an increase in cancer, diabetes, heart disease, depression, gastrointestinal disorders, heart failure--the list goes on. We should attack obesity exactly as we have gone after tobacco--with a national advertising campaign, more self-help groups, taxes on certain foods and the right to sue food manufacturers and restaurants. John M.R. Kuhn, WESTON...