Anderson reduces "'x is good' roughly to 'it is rational to value x,' where to value something is to adopt toward it a favorable attitude susceptible to rational reflection" (1997, 95).
With the advent of Apple's iCloud and Microsoft's SkyDrive, businesses will have to decide whether these proprietary clouds are something they want to adopt.
In 1941 anti-Semitic legislation was enacted in Bulgaria under German pressure to adopt something akin to the Nürnberg Laws.
We need to adopt something much more like the Scottish model in the rest of the UK.
"This call for change is something companies are slow to adopt because it is expensive and hard".
But it will also be next to useless.A better idea is to adopt something called virtualisation a technique that's been around for ages, but has only lately come back into fashion.
In his later court portraits, Velázquez was to adopt something of the more elaborate decor and richer colouring of the Flemish Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens (1577 1640), whom he met during the latter's second visit to the Spanish court in 1628.
And a separate pair in Italy, News Corporation's Stream and Vivendi's Telepiu, are also struggling to cut their losses.At first glance, this wave of bad news might suggest a European reluctance to adopt something that the Americans consider to be part of the furniture.
Lynn Turner, a former chief accountant of the SEC who is now at Colorado State University, says that America would do well to adopt something like Britain's new, independent system for upholding audit standards.The large part played by special purpose vehicles in Enron's collapse has spurred the Financial Accounting Standards Board FASBB) to revisit its rules on how to account for them.
In a 1996 speech, Ms. Norton criticized what she said had been the Clinton administration's challenges to Colorado's self-audit approach, including what she said had been a threat to cut off millions of dollars in federal assistance "because we had the audacity to adopt something in environmental area".
