The designation may change how aggressively doctors treat obesity, foster the development of new therapies, and lead to better coverage byinsurers.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the state's governor, rounded up politicians and officials from across the globe (expending quite a bit of carbon) and urged them to tackle climate change more aggressively.
"I could have pursued my change more aggressively, and this would have shortened the transition process," he says, "but it also would have shifted more family burdens to my wife and cost my children time with their dad".
And perhaps even worse, school administrators will do little to sanction the attackers, defend their victims, or work to change campus' aggressively hyper-masculine groups -- fraternities and sports teams -- whose members are the most common perpetrators of sexual assault, according to a recent report by United Educators, which offers liability insurance to schools.
The Departments of Homeland Security and State have altered some of their regulations and procedures to reduce barriers experienced by international postdocs seeking positions in the U.S. All of these changes were aggressively pursued by the NPA, working in concert with its allies.
She said California's high ambition came from its commitment to tackling climate change: "California is aggressively pursuing a low-carbon agenda and they don't want diesel [generator back-up] on the system".
By the time John Donahoe took the helm of eBay in Q1 2008, he opted to "aggressively change our product, our customer approach and our business model".
"He knows the business and can experiment," says Hsu. Indeed, Donahoe seems prepared to take some chances, noting on eBay's fourth-quarter conference call that he will "aggressively change our product, our customer approach and our business model".
Before the policy change, companies that aggressively acquired data from Facebook would come in for meetings with the social media company and discuss how the data was being used.
Why would ISIS suddenly and so aggressively change its tactics and course?
