Word: using
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...use or understand words but still responds to music, touch or eye contact...
...firms operate under federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act guidelines, which supersede varying and often baffling state insurance requirements. This lets national employers use one set of rules, simplifying the administration of health benefits. Moreover, ERISA guidelines in many cases are far less costly to implement than the state requirements, which may include coverage for such things as mental illness and alcoholism treatment, contraceptives, dentures and hair replacement...
...could result in a higher tax on books delivered online than those bought in a bookstore. Ken Wasch, president of Europe's Software & Information Industry Association, called the directive "simply unenforceable." Guido de Wit, a VAT tax expert with a Brussels law firm, notes that the commission intends to use credit-card billing addresses in chasing tax revenues. That, he observes, is likely to run afoul of credit-card companies that want no part in releasing information for tax purposes. Nor is it at all clear how European tax authorities could audit the flow of international e-commerce or sanction...
...have become entrepreneurs out of necessity. The slump has also prompted some big businesses to look at their incentive systems. Electronic-components manufacturer Omron made headlines last year when it promised a $1 million bonus to any researcher whose idea contributes significantly to company sales. Toshiba lets its engineers use up to 10% of their time to focus on new concepts. Fujitsu supports a program, dubbed "My Way," that allows researchers three years to investigate a topic of their choosing. The firm concedes that very few of its 1,500 researchers take advantage of the deal...
...first began to use the tubes in the '80s, in exhibitions. Impressed by the material's load-bearing capacity (he calls cardboard "improved wood"), he thought of them again in 1995, after the Kobe earthquake, and used donated 34-ply tubes to build a community hall and houses. Working with the U.N., Ban has shipped paper log houses to Turkey and Rwanda. "Refugee shelter has to be beautiful," he says. "Psychologically, refugees are damaged. They have to stay in nice places...