"I tapped her on the waist lightly once telling her to do a good job, " he said.

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America's environmental statutes are a telling exception: they do clearly assign criminal liability to top managers, and with good results.

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And the more positive a doctor is when telling a patient about the placebo he is prescribing, the more likely it is to do that patient good.

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