[00:01.59]innovation
[00:04.26]While that is good news for consumers in the form of innovation and cheaper prices, it means fierce
[00:11.05]competition, tech analysts and executives say.
[00:17.79]installation
[00:21.21]California regulators on Thursday approved a $350 million program to subsidize the installation of
[00:29.22]solar water heaters to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
[00:35.97]legislation
[00:40.46]Dignity in Dying campaigns for terminally ill, mentally competent adults to have the choice of an
[00:48.01]assisted death, in line with legislation in Oregon. There is no evidence of this legislation having
[00:55.91]a negative impact on potentially vulnerable groups.
[01:01.76]objection
[01:06.24]“If you participate in a conference call and you don’t raise any objections, that suggests you were
[01:13.28]consulted,” said one senior law-enforcement official.
[01:19.84]obligation
[01:22.46]We believe in earning the trust of our fellow Afghans daily. It is our responsibility, our obligation
[01:30.59]and our duty. We seal our commitment in the blood of our officers and patrolmen who sacrifice daily.
[01:40.78]obsession
[01:43.46]William Damon, head of the Stanford University Center on Adolescence, talked to NEWSWEEK's Pat Wingert
[01:51.67]about why the tween years are the age of obsession and how parents should react.
[01:59.36]perfection
[02:01.98]Pope John Paul II whipped himself with a belt, even on vacation, and slept on the floor as acts of
[02:10.08]penitence and to bring him closer to Christian perfection, according to a new book by the Polish
[02:16.93]prelate spearheading his sainthood case.
[02:21.77]persuasion
[02:26.13]As lawyers, salesmen and politicians should know, persuasion is an art. What they probably do not know
[02:34.27]is that varying the distance between the speaker and his target may affect the persuader's success.
[02:46.49]debris
[02:48.54]A: What are those people looking for in the debris?
[02:51.84]B: A pinned-down child stuck under the debris after the quake.