Word: use
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...wind in Nantucket Sound will certainly keep blowing; the only question now is how long it will be until we make use...
...campaign received a big boost last month when the European Commission proposed a ban on the use of great apes in scientific procedure testing across Europe (behavioral studies will still be allowed). But such a ban is still unforeseeable in America, where an estimated 3,100 great apes remain in captivity...
...question of justice. A democratic society such as ours only works if the weak are protected from the unfair exploitation by the strong. It’s why it’s illegal for physically stronger people to prey on the powerless and for individuals who own guns to use them against people who don’t. The same is true for intelligence. As a society, we cannot allow people who are smart to exploit people who don’t know how to read a mortgage statement or don’t understand that the free money advertised...
...There is one primary difference between the current crop of crooked executives and those of Kozlowski’s “generation.” The earlier set, today imprisoned, stole money out of largely stable companies for their own personal use. Today’s top guns learned from their example, and siphoned their massive cuts, through bonuses and other forms of compensation, out of firms that turned out to be poorly-managed, colossal houses of cards, ready to collapse at any moment. Doesn’t the latter class of actions beg for convictions and new sentences...
...years in jail. Yet the U.S. justice system can at least make a symbolic gesture in denying the parole of corporate criminals recently convicted for crimes. Their sentences were hailed not long ago for the strong signal they sent to would-be embezzlers; the time is right to use strict enforcement of those sentences to restate that message...