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An Agenda for Sustainable Communities
No full textThis article summarizes progress toward sustainable communities in the United States since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (or Earth Summit) in 1992. It shows the significant initiative that many communities have undertaken and identifies existing state and federal laws as impediments to achieving sustainability. This article also makes recommendations for further progress based on what we have already learned about how to achieve sustainable communities. They include not only more and strengthened sustainable community efforts, and broad state and federal legal support, but also deep engagement of all affected citizens. This article is based primarily on three separate assessments of U.S. sustainable development efforts since 1992, including Agenda for a Sustainable America (2009)
Guidance on a Topic That Spans Practice Areas and Professions (Reviewing P. Garth Gartrell and Steven P. Lapidus, Executive Compensation for Emerging Growth Companies (2008))
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The Synergy of Early Offers and Medical Explanations/Apologies
No full textMedical malpractice law has been subjected to strong criticism by both medical and legal commentators. It has been challenged as inefficient, inaccurate, and even counterproductive. Although many reforms have been proposed, most tend to benefit one group - either physicians or patients - to the exclusion of the other