And the answer,she says, is that bilingual people are often better at controlling their attention -- a function called the executive control system.

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But it moves us decisively in the right direction." Barry Arbuckle is chief executive of the non-profit MemorialCare Health System in Fountain Valley,California.

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And it acted to soup up fundraising and efficiency by hiring, in early 2000, Van Etten, a longtime nonprofit health-care-system executive with a Harvard M.

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"He was obviously very ambitious, and he wanted, I think, to be in political control of Russia during Yeltsin's time, and that didn't work out for him, " said Stuart Loory, a former Turner Broadcasting System executive vice president, who was a consultant to Berezovsky during the 1990s.

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They include more oversight over the financial system and executive pay, extending health insurance to the 15% of Americans who lack it, shifting energy consumption from fossil to renewable fuels, and redistributing income from the wealthy to the middle-class.

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