• The plain fact that the London riots are being perpetrated by a non-Muslim demographic would not of itself preclude media outlets on the right, especially those in Europe, from immigrant-baiting and engaging in anti-jihad jeremiads.

    FORBES: The London Riots and the (Non) Reaction of the Conservative Press

  • Corruption in procurement - engaging in collusion, bribes and kickbacks in purchasing drugs or equipment, resulting in overpayment or reduced quality.

    BBC: NEWS | Business | Medical corruption 'global issue'

  • But when he prepared for a medical flight in August of 2011 -- while simultaneously engaging in a private text conversation -- he set into motion events that led to the deaths of four people, including himself.

    CNN: Pilot texting a factor in deadly copter crash

  • And the second issue is engaging in longer-term deficit reduction in a way that allows the economy to grow faster and create jobs more quickly.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

  • When you look at this debacle we had with the debt ceiling and raising it, what you realize is, is that our politics -- engaging in partisan brinksmanship and potentially seeing the first default of the United States of America -- that that has no place in how we move forward together.

    WHITEHOUSE: Rural Tour Day 3: Atkinson, Ill Town Hall

  • On April 24th, another federal judge upheld a ruling in a test case that would require internet-access providers to reveal the identities of subscribers engaging in file-swapping when ordered to do so by a court.

    ECONOMIST: How to pay the piper

  • Last fall, Mr. Baldeo was criminally charged with engaging in a straw-donor scheme in which contributors are reimbursed illegally for their donations, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

    WSJ: Liu Campaign in Tough Spot on City Matching Funds

  • The storming of the White House is fun, but once the director, Antoine Fuqua, moves inside the building he loses us with endless scenes of Banning walking down dark corridors and engaging in hand-to-hand combat, shot in the usual fragmented way that makes it impossible to see very much of anything.

    NEWYORKER: Olympus Has Fallen

  • Skechers USA ( SKX - news - people ): Bullish options investors are engaging in plain-vanilla call buying on the maker of contemporary footwear.

    FORBES: Options Flash

  • The Administration has worked across several initiatives to support teachers, including by recruiting top talent to the profession, increasing accountability of teacher preparation programs, supporting the rethinking of traditional compensation and advancement models, promoting educator collaboration, and re-engaging communities in their schools.

    WHITEHOUSE: Home ? Reform for the Future

  • Rafael is now turning his energies toward a call to action and creating an initiative called the U.S. Science Project focused on inspiring individual scientists, businesses, legislators and community leaders to scale efforts for engaging in impact-driven volunteerism to begin to fill the science deficit in our nation through a volunteer Science Corps.

    WHITEHOUSE: Rafael san miguel | The White House

  • Somewhere on there is a timer of the minutes you spent yammering away on the phone -- not texting, not surfing the net, but actually engaging in voice-to-voice communication.

    CNN: A call to pick up the phone

  • And as if all that were not enough, last month, Brice Hortefeux, the interior minister and long-time chum of Mr Sarkozy, was caught on video engaging in racist-sounding banter.

    ECONOMIST: Sarkozy and morality

  • For those of us who support charter schools and other K-12 changes, it is equally important to recognize that engaging in all-out war with teachers' unions will wind up punishing children more than anyone else.

    CNN: A victory for curbs on public worker unions

  • By engaging in public-private collaboration as we have done with utilities and others in the electricity sector, perhaps we can find opportunities to work with the auto industry to make useful data more easily available to drivers.

    WHITEHOUSE: Brainstorming With Energy Data

  • Weiner contends that an unidentified passage written by Halperin in 1976 -- to the effect that "The CIA should be broken up into two separate organizations: one an intelligence-evaluation organization and the other a small unit engaging in covert operations" -- disproves the claim made in a memorandum circulated by Sen.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Politicians, preachers, lawyers, bureaucrats and, one suspects, journalist-novelists like himself, also flunk his test of masculinity by engaging in namby-pamby occupations.

    ECONOMIST: Atlanta burnt again

  • The standard would significantly expand the FAA's so-called "sterile cockpit rule, " which prohibits pilots from engaging in non-flight-related conversations during take-offs and landings.

    CNN: Pilot texting a factor in deadly copter crash

  • More troubling are reports that Mr. Yang is engaging in one-off discussions with private equity firms, presumably because it is in his best personal interests to do so.

    FORBES: Yahoo: Investor Loeb Seeks 2 Board Seats; Attacks Jerry Yang

  • If Benghazi were a terrorist detention facility-and possibly engaging in enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs)-then Obama has quite the policy scandal on his hands.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • To this list of tasks for the new Congress must be added a new one: consideration of legislation -- perhaps the amendment of the Logan Act which was intended to prevent U.S. citizens from engaging in freelance diplomacy -- to discourage "Loose Cannon Carter" from doing any more damage in the future.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A NEW LOW: JIMMY CARTER'S BOSNIAN FIASCO MUST BE HIS LAST

  • The challenge of "securing a cease-fire, removing armed tribesmen from urban centers, returning the military to the barracks and engaging in military-security reform will be serious stumbling blocks post-signing, " according to Longley Alley.

    CNN: Yemen after Saleh: Still a treacherous road

  • The marketing department is becoming more involved in setting the research agenda--and even engaging in debates with scientists over the kind of health claims that can be made on food labels.

    FORBES: Pressure Cooker

  • Making friends or even engaging in some quasi-bartering relationship with them can make all the difference in the world.

    FORBES: 10 Unconventional (But Very Effective) Tips For Job Seekers

  • And yet, thanks to the Arab spring, Islam stands its best chance in generations of re-engaging with politics to found institutions in which religious and civil life can coexist.

    ECONOMIST: Osama bin Laden

  • "I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can, " the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards of North Carolina told a luncheon meeting of supporters at the City Club of Cleveland.

    CNN: Back on trail, Elizabeth Edwards pushes stem-cell funding

  • Kenyan officials said Kenyan navy personnel pursued the attackers in their high-speed boat, engaging in a shootout, but the gang managed to cross the border back into Somalia.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • There are endless scenes of Banning moving down darkened corridors and engaging in firefights and hand-to-hand combat, shot in the usual fragmented way, which makes it impossible to see most of what is happening.

    NEWYORKER: Rough Rides

  • Last month, a Senate bill was introduced calling for improved oversight of colleges engaging in default-rate manipulation.

    WSJ: Weighing Merits of Loan Deferments Today to Keep Defaults Away

  • Her father, Mell, who had helped Blagojevich get elected, then asserted that Blagojevich's fundraisers were engaging in pay-to-play.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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