Word: standpoints
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...That's not the only potential conflict at play. While the Justice Department has already decided that Birkenfeld isn't a true whistle-blower, the IRS has yet to make its own determination. An adverse ruling "may make more sense legally than it does from a policy standpoint," says former IRS commissioner Margaret Richardson. But if the IRS comes to a different conclusion from the DOJ - and under a new law, Birkenfeld can challenge the IRS decision in court - the UBS whistle-blower could end up collecting the first of millions of dollars from the government even as he sits...
...fame whose pressure threatens to break even her seemingly indominable happiness.Powers thus combines the recent public attention to the positive psychology movement, genetic enhancement, and the democratic atmosphere of the internet into a novel that examines happiness from a thoroughly modern—and therefore highly empirical—standpoint. “How programmed are we?” Russell vulnerably begs. His girlfriend, a therapist, responds honestly, but then adds encouragingly, “Temperament can self-modify. People can get free, or at least a little freer.” This is not enough for Russell...
...however, climate change for China has become the elephant in the room - an issue the country has to manage diplomatically as well as deal with substantively (two things that are emphatically not, from the government's standpoint, the same). Western environmental scientists and activists - who had directed most of their attention (and ire) at George W. Bush's U.S. - finally began embracing reality: China, with 1.3 billion people grasping the higher living standards that industrialization and market economics have brought, had only just begun to spew CO2 into the atmosphere, and it was already the No. 1 emitter. If climate...
...here and how to keep it up here. I’ve spent much of the rest of the time suppressing the urge to bore my friends with long soliloquies on why turbocharging a daily driver is a bad idea from a reliability standpoint, or why power-to-weight ratio is way more important than raw horsepower, or why…sorry, am I boring you? I’ll stop now. My obsession started early. I subscribed to Car and Driver in fourth grade. I was crushed when my mom made it clear to me that I wouldn?...
...take great pride in the fact that [Kennedy] was a Harvard football player, from the standpoint that obviously he was one of the great legislators of all time,” Crimson coach Tim Murphy says. “The reason we champion Ted Kennedy so much, is that what he accomplished is legendary in the Senate, and who he accomplished it for, I think is just as important...