We very much hope that the super committee will fulfill its mandate, produce a proposal that is balanced and fair, that doesn't ask any sector of society to bear the burden of reducing our deficits and getting our fiscal house in order.
While Apple, Google and Facebook might be evolving into the Weyland Corporation in terms of their godly wealth and power, these companies aren't returning much of their fortune back to society.
The new findings actually underestimate the true impact of obesity on society because they don't address the costs of obesity-related illness and other factors, says Mokdad, who was not involved with the current study.
"They aren't used to being part of regular society, " he says.
Colin Gillies of the Wildlife Society of Zimbabwe says if the skies don't open up soon, things could take a sharp turn for the worse.
But certainly, starting with housing, we had people giving out loans that probably should not have been given out to a certain segment of the society that weren't credit worthy.
Populated by mainstream Americans and Mexican immigrants, by the working class and the retired, this hamlet is a poor outpost with Old West roots where people don't miss society and have often dropped out of it.
One of his responsibilities is for full employment in society, and he hasn't really stepped up on that, but basically in terms of influencing how the economy went this year, Bernanke was the guy.
But it's hard not to wonder if those "ineffable qualities of homeownership" aren't clouding her judgment, at least a little, the way that society's dictate of marriage so often distorts our experience of relationships, pressuring many of us to marry because we "should, " even when we shouldn't.
In the case in Massachusetts that John mentioned, in the schools in the Lynn district, where they've had a voluntary desegregation plan, and they've now defended it successfully in Federal court, the students feel that the kids in the adjoining districts that are segregated are clueless about the nature of this society and just don't understand how to operate in it.
We have soft power, the policies of attraction that Professor Nye has so elegantly crystallized: long-term, positive, appealing aspects of American culture and society that aren't necessarily calibrated to promote a particular policy or initiative, but are always working for us in the background.
It's just that the way society works, most people don't think of themselves as on any kind of a spectrum at all.
The government is likely to see it as a very hot potato indeed, and the British Organ Donation Society thinks it doesn't take sufficient account of families' wishes.
While I agree with Brand's assertion that we can't let extremists determine the terms of debate for the rest of society, especially when their goal is to take us off center by inspiring further hate and distrust, I'm not convinced that taking troops out of Afghanistan would stop terrorism -- and, unlike Brand, I think that evil exists.
And I think that it is that attribute of U.S. society that we don't want to kill in any dimension.
"We don't mind them publishing the effects of what they have discovered to inform society, I think this is absolutely fine, " he said.
When we talk about social justice, we also need to recognise that the inequalities in society affect the life chances of people who don't think of themselves as especially disadvantaged.
"Sport isn't an add-on to society, it's an integral part of it, " he said.
It's one of those issues that we, as a society, still haven't quite figured out yet.
We haven't seen anything positive happen since 1996 when I formed the Friends of the Old Pier Society.
You don't succeed in business in a free society unless you meet the needs and wants of other people.
Aren't we an older, more poorly educated society than the one that climbed out of similar debt after World War II?
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Facebook isn't alone, of course, in offering this seductive fantasy of a radically transparent digital society in which our self esteem is determined by our updates, tweets and check-ins.
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After all, you don't want lawyers to be fee-driven or to put their own interests above those of society.
Dr. Scott Shikora, president of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, said he hasn't been impressed with the results.
It's perhaps a commentary on a changing society or Quinn herself that the groundbreaking aspects of her candidacy aren't front and center.
Even if she wanted change in her society, I asked, didn't she think there was a way of achieving that peacefully, without killing and violence?
There has always been an element of neanderthals in our society, men desperately confused about why they can't attract and keep a female, always turning to imaginary problems like blaming work, blaming education.
They are the pawns in a brutal game of profits before credibility, led by a management who care not a jot for Scottish culture or society... an ignorant bunch of number crunchers who don't give a toss about producing a quality Scottish newspaper.
Mr. MROUE: I don't have any kind of illusions that I'm going to do a big change in the society.
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