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ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Can the U.S. public health preparedness system withstand another terrorist attack or potentially devastating event? The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) believes it can. In fact, ASTHO believes that experiences of the past decade have spurred a transformation of America's public health preparedness system. Since 2001, states and territories have significantly improved and demonstrated their ability to prevent, respond to, recover from, and reduce the effects of a full range of threats and hazards.
Since the events of Sept. 11, 2001, state and territorial public health agencies are now more skilled and better equipped to rapidly organize and mobilize emergency care for mass casualties, widely distribut...
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The importance of lexicology to modern society is not widely recognized. It is generally associated with dictionary editors and libraries, certainly not with any grand adventures. It is the role of the arbitrator to interpret and determine the proper construction of contract language. Lexicology is, then, the business of arbitrators. In other words, an arbitrator must perform the role of a lexicologist with respect to the parties' agreement. Language is not a static means of communication, but clearly a dynamic one. The result is that there is a life span for any standard meaning of words. This dynamic is nowhere more evident than in the four corners of a collective bargaining agreement. With the passage of time, the nature of the work, the technology used, and even the product or servi...
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... with disabilities who require alternative means of communication (Braille, large print, audio tape...
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... with disabilities who require alternative means of communication (Braille, large print, audio tape...
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My daughter loves to send text messages.
Sara is 16, sweet and smart, and very outgoing. She's also a Zen master of the text message. On any given evening, she is plugged into an alternative universe of teenagers whose only means of communication is via both thumbs and a small, palm-sized smartphone.
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