• Five years is long enough for Web commerce to get its collective act together and deliver on the hype.

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  • Dressed almost entirely in black a collective act referred to as a "blackout" Nets fans went into hysterics as swingman Jerry Stackhouse sang the national anthem before the game.

    WSJ: Nets Earn First Postseason Win in Brooklyn

  • This time, we, through the United Nations, found the courage and the collective will to act.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Salutes the People of Libya

  • It is the definitive expression of our collective wealth to act in the face of death and disease and conflict that is preventable.

    NPR: G8 Leaders Agree on Aid Package for Africa

  • Creating the currency union was not a random act of collective economic suicide, but was in some senses a rational or even noble project that was either premature or too late.

    BBC: The euro's survival 'requires political union'

  • The act of collective worship provided by form teachers in the classroom is of inconsistent quality, while neither the time nor the place of the smaller assemblies is conducive to the purpose of collective worship.

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  • K. Venkatesh Prasad, head of the advanced engineering team at Ford, talked about the car as a global platform in which people spend some 2 billion commuter hours a week, which can give people custom information, and act as collective sensors of movement or weather.

    FORBES: The Future Revisited

  • Neither the year assemblies held in the gymnasium nor the tutor periods that take place on non-assembly days provide satisfactory opportunities for spiritual development and the school is continuing to fail to comply with statutory requirements for a daily act of collective worship for all pupils.

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  • Can we trust DB, Societe General and other banks to act in our collective best interests?

    FORBES: Who's The AIG In This Financial Greek Tragedy?

  • Our collective failure to speak out, to act against men who rape, has led once again to tragedy, this time in Delhi.

    BBC: Viewpoints: What next after outcry over Delhi rape?

  • Whatever your opinion of the teachers unions may be, the act of denying thousands of public employees their right to collective bargaining is most certainly an overreach by Wisconsin Republicans.

    FORBES: Wisconsin Supreme Court Reinstates Anti-Collective Bargaining Law

  • "If the individual decides to take the training individually and then gets motivated or does an act on his own, you cannot level that as a collective thing from Pakistan, or say that any sort of help is being given to them, " he said.

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  • This philosophy of collective responsibility culminated in laws such as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), and programs like Medicare and Medicaid, which render economic calculations in healthcare provision virtually illegal and healthcare a right despite the fact that if healthcare is a right, it requires the violation of the rights of others who are forced to provide it.

    FORBES: Let's End The Enslavement Of Healthcare Providers

  • There is a certain Nietzschean creative-destructive darkness to this three-act transformation from human to elemental archetype to near-infallible crucible of the collective unconscious.

    FORBES: We Are All Macs Now

  • None of this would work, Greve notes, unless every state legislature passed its version of the MSA, a collective action that created the equivalent of a gross violation of the federal Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

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  • But as with any challenge, the outcome is in the response: we as individuals can choose to join the doomsayers, passive bystanders, and despondent fatalists in the comfort of collective complaining, or we can choose to abandon mediocrity, see the silver lining, and act upon the opportunity to build a better future.

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  • If you assume this kind of fiscal pact is now within the leaders' grasp, plus some revamped policy commitments from countries like Italy, we would then move to the second act in this feel-good tale, in which Germany agrees to some form of collective underwriting of eurozone debt.

    BBC: A happy ending for the euro?

  • She said the "failings were collective errors of judgment" and the local authority was reviewing its training for staff regarding the Mental Capacity Act and deprivation of liberty safeguards.

    BBC: London

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