Word: towardness
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...Odetta and many other survivors of the civil rights movement, the election of Barack Obama as President signaled a fulfilling chapter in the struggle. As she sank toward death in New York City, Odetta had an Obama poster taped on the wall across from her bed. Hospitalized with kidney failure on Monday, she kept willing herself to live because, her manager Doug Yeager wrote on a fansite just before her death, "Odetta believes she is going to sing at Obama's Inauguration, and I believe that is the reason she is still alive...
...people - especially women - who have yet to benefit, there is also a clear risk of mission drift. One particularly disturbing trend - since you can't talk about poverty alleviation without talking about women's economic empowerment - is a decrease in the percentage of women being served as MFIs move toward a for-profit model . So making sure that profit doesn't trump mission is critically important...
Worse from a profitability point of view, GM's product line is currently skewed toward pickups and SUVs, unlike Toyota et al. So declining sales in those segments takes a much bigger bite out of GM's bottom line...
These findings are part of a larger trend toward a more widespread use of EHRs...
When he learns that I live in New York, Ridha Mohammed leans toward me and lowers his voice to a conspiratory whisper. "I will tell you a secret that the Americans don't know," he says. "Their next President...