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...York, eliminating cafeteria trays is just one tactic to address the issue of food waste; reducing the size of serving dishes and portions, she says, might be just as effective. As part of its Low Carbon Diet program, launched in April, Bon Appétit has challenged all 80 of its accounts to reduce food waste by 25% by April 2010. The company provides the educational material and lets its colleges decide how it should be implemented...
...result, training sessions in the sport have have only become more grueling. Keeping the youngest competitors from the rigorous world of international competition is supposed to protect them from dangerous, potentially life-long injuries. In that respect, age doping is no different from other illegal performance enhancing tactic - not only is it unfair to the rest of the competitors, it's most unfair to the athletes doing it to themselves...
...country's two biggest democratic parties also meant that the fight against religious militants in Pakistan came to be seen as Musharraf's (and America's) war, utterly lacking in popular support. Large swathes of territory were overrun by Pakistani Taliban, army morale crumbled and the once unheard-of tactic of suicide bombing became commonplace in Pakistan...
...sailboat. That's it.'' Malone's brilliance and belligerence have become the stuff of legend. In 1991, for example, Malone was outbid by a rival in his attempt to acquire the Learning Channel. His response: TCI began dropping the Learning Channel from its local cable systems. The tactic killed his rival's deal, and TCI's 49%- owned Discovery Channel later purchased the Learning Channel at a steep discount. Malone is also known to cook up complex deals that can take cadres of lawyers and accountants a week to disentangle in order to sell and buy back assets. Just last...
...supplied the list of suspect companies: the Rev. Donald Wildmon of Tupelo, Miss., a Methodist minister and founder of the ultraconservative National Federation for Decency. The Justice Department vigorously denied that it plans prosecutions and insisted that its ''fair-reply letter'' was not a McCarthyite tactic. ''There is not a blacklist,'' says Government Attorney Robert Cynkar. ''There never was.'' Playboy's lawyer, Bruce Ennis, asserts that the commission's letter was drafted specifically to intimidate the magazine ''because it couldn't do so using the law.'' No jury has ever found Playboy to be legally obscene under the guidelines prescribed...