Word: set
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...Both shows are set in San Francisco--which is 35% Asian--but have no Asian characters...
Public-interest groups like the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES), based in Boston, are scrambling to issue guidelines and standards. CERES, a coalition of more than 50 investor, environmental, religious, labor and social-justice groups, has launched a global-reporting initiative to set environmental benchmarks for corporate reports. London's Institute of Social and Ethical Account Ability, a lobbying group, has established recommendations for standards for social and ethical reporting and developed accreditation procedures for professionals in this area...
...group attempting to write a widely accepted set of standards faces a rough task. Standards must be rigorous enough to satisfy pressure groups, yet realistic enough for corporations to find them affordable and achievable. Moreover, the canons are proliferating, and will soon begin to clash with one another. The European Federation of Accountants and Auditors in Brussels, for example, is drafting a set of environmental standards that are likely to differ from those of CERES. "We need a unified, comparable system, because it's not helpful if there are 25 different standards" in competition with one another, says Sir Geoffrey...
Home-equity loans are available at fixed or variable interest rates. Householders can borrow a lump sum or set up a revolving line of credit that they can tap into as they please; amounts repaid can be borrowed again. Though such loans were once used for home expansions and remodelings, today's householders are borrowing for all sorts of purposes. Among them...
...many of which involved deep, complicated ties to other politicians and corporate interests. Amid all this advice, the one tip Gore might have done well to take came early on from Bill Clinton, who told others that Gore should have moved his campaign operation back to Tennessee. Instead, Gore set up shop blocks from the White House on K Street--a concrete-and-glass canyon that is to lobbyists what Wall Street is to stock traders...