Though some exercise professionals have questioned pole-dance promoters about the efficiency of the exercise, Miriam E. Nelson, director of the John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition at Tufts University, said research supported creative approaches to getting people up and moving around.
"We're a $100 billion-plus corporation that has squandered its buying power, has no standardization across business units and does not reward efficiency," said Howard Glaser, the director of state operations, who has been charged by Mr. Cuomo with wringing dollars out of the state's bottom line.
Office of AIDS Research, Office of the Director (OAR/NIH).
"These countries should pay today's market prices for their energy to improve the efficiency of their economies," Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organization, was quoted by AFX as saying of former Soviet satellite states.
"Right now appraisers really don't have an effective way of considering energy-efficient features," said Robert Sahadi, the director of energy efficiency finance policy for the Institute for Market Transformation, a major supporter of the legislation.
Before joining MIT, he served as the first energy manager of the City of San Antonio and as the director of efficiency projects for CVAL Innovations, an energy engineering startup.
"You want to pay for achievement — better health quality and efficiency," said Dr. David Blumenthal, director of the Institute for Health Policy at the Harvard Medical School, who advised the Obama campaign.
