Fwd: Google Alert - language policy

Thu Oct 18 21:12:30 UTC 2007

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From: Google Alerts <googlealerts-noreply at google.com>
Date: Oct 11, 2007 8:26 AM
Subject: Google Alert - language policy
To: hfsclpp at gmail.com

 Google News Alert for: *language policy*

Misplaced Trust<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119205274505355129.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>
Wall Street Journal - USA
Both they and their ministers are apt to make confident, alarmist statements
which go well beyond the more guarded *language* of the Assessment Reports.
*...*
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topic<http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119205274505355129.html%3Fmod%3Dgooglenews_wsj>

Reporting on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by the Largest
*...*<http://www.socialfunds.com/news/release.cgi/9882.html>
SocialFunds.com - USA
This survey analyzes companies' disclosures in English (in the English-*
language* annual report and on the English-*language* company website)
during the time *...*
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topic<http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://www.socialfunds.com/news/release.cgi/9882.html>

Duceppe slams 'multiculturalism,' accuses Ottawa of failing to
*...*<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071011.duceppe11/BNStory/National/home>
Globe and Mail - Canada
"If the Canadian parties are coherent with this recognition, they must
understand that the Quebec nation and the French *language* go hand in
hand," Mr. *...*
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topic<http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071011.duceppe11/BNStory/National/home>

EPA Joins Settlement of Lawsuit but Adds a
Waiver<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/10/AR2007101002389.html?hpid=topnews>
Washington Post - United States
The *language* of the settlement indicates that the administration has not
wavered in its distaste for a Clinton-era *policy* of using the law to force
power *...*
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topic<http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/10/AR2007101002389.html%3Fhpid%3Dtopnews>

EDITORIAL: Good *policy* now, less trouble
later<http://www.beloitdailynews.com/articles/2007/10/10/editorials/edit01.txt>
Beloit Daily News - Beloit,WI,USA
The American Library Association lists it as one of the most challenged
books because of alleged "offensive *language*, sexual content and unsuited
to age *...*
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topic<http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://www.beloitdailynews.com/articles/2007/10/10/editorials/edit01.txt>

Estonia tongue-tied over *language*
differences<http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/18997/>
Baltic Times - Riga,Latvia
The purpose of the conference is for *policy* makers to harvest feedback
from interest groups on a draft integration program. Flicking through the
summary *...*
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topic<http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/18997/>

Google Blogs Alert for: *language policy*

Bipartisan Foreign *Policy* Leaders on Annapolis
Conference<http://www.prospectsforpeace.com/2007/10/bipartisan_foreign_policy_lead.html>
By Daniel Levy
The text provides reasonable, meaningful and sufficiently detailed suggested
*language* for an agreement that could be announced at the conference. It
suggests that if the parties cannot reach this bilaterally, then the
international *...*
Prospects for Peace - http://www.prospectsforpeace.com/
<http://www.prospectsforpeace.com/>

Hispanic Students' Performance on
NAEP<http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2007/10/hispanic_students_performance.html>
By Mary Ann Zehr
I take the opportunity here to relay a viewpoint by Richard Rothstein, a
former education columnist and a research associate at the Washington-based
Economic *Policy* Institute, that didn't make it into the Education Week
article about *...*
Learning the Language -
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/
<http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/>

Pour aller a la
plage?<http://fabulousblueporcupine.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/pour-aller-a-la-plage/>
By Alix
I don't know quite how the decision was made to adopt a sort of whimsical
pidgeon French as our private *language*, but it was certainly a
*policy*which came dramatically unstuck when we went on holiday to
Bruges, and a
smattering of *...*
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF MORTIMER -
http://fabulousblueporcupine.wordpress.com
<http://fabulousblueporcupine.wordpress.com/>

SEC Sends Lawyers Back to English
Class<http://feeds.portfolio.com/~r/portfolio/dailybrief/~3/167636896/sec-sends-lawyers-back-to-english-class>
For starters, SEC chairman Christopher Cox will revisit the topic during his
keynote presentation later this week at the Center for Plain *Language* for
a conference entitled "Plain *Language*: Public *Policy* and Good Business."
Where else? *...*
Portfolio.com: Daily Brief - http://feeds.portfolio.com/portfolio/dailybrief
<http://feeds.portfolio.com/portfolio/dailybrief>

Current biofuel *policies* are protectionist pork, report
suggests<http://www.openmarket.org/2007/10/10/current-biofuel-policies-are-protectionist-pork-report-suggests/>
By Marlo Lewis
A new report by the International Trade & Agriculture *Policy* Council (IPC)
examines the "early lessons" from US and EU biofuels *policy*. The report's
*language* is bland, but the gist is clear. US and EU *policies* are
protectionist pork for *...*
OpenMarket.org - http://www.openmarket.org <http://www.openmarket.org/>

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