Plus, to his credit, he seems to understand that the battle with the bottle is not something that can be decreed by autocratic fiat, but rather that it is going to have to be a long, drawn-out (boring) campaign if it is ever to be effective.
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To rectify the problem, he's decreed that English be taught in all schools beginning in first grade and computer education in second.
The only thing is that the keyboard actually looks more or less impossible to use (how exactly would you hold the phone when you're typing?), and it almost seems like someone at Sony Ericsson just decreed that one be tossed in there without really thinking about its usability.
Since devaluation would thus mean bankruptcy for many debtors, Mr Duhalde decreed that dollars should be converted into pesos.
The Commission Generale de Terminologie et de Neologisme has decreed that hashtag will be no more, in a further bid to stop English invading the language.
Last July the government decreed that public medical care be replaced with a general health insurance.
The business plan decreed that the hotels would be modern, clean and economical.
Now Mr Maroni has decreed that the migrants should be held at a new identification and expulsion centre on Lampedusa itself until they are repatriated.
Fifa, world football's governing body, has decreed that the World Cup will be held on African soil for the first time in 2010.
Queen Victoria (who of course married the very royal Prince Albert, her cousin) was widely thought to have decreed that her family should not be restricted to royal spouses.
Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney-general, recently decreed that investment research should no longer be paid for by corporate finance.
When Mr Bush signed NCLB a decade ago, with support from both sides of the aisle, it decreed that 100% of students should be reading and doing mathematics at the appropriate level for their ages by 2014.
The Berkshire Hathaway chairman Buffett might note, too, as Steves Forbes approvingly pointed out at the conference, that he has decreed that the billions he is donating be dispensed within 10 years, which will pour a lot more than tens of millions of dollars a year into projects.
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He politely decreed the connection between sports and stocks to be rubbish.
One of Ghosn's first moves at Nissan was a shocker: He decreed that English, not Japanese, would be the official language of the Tokyo company, and he made it known that managers who learned English would advance faster than those who spoke only Japanese.
It decreed that if a pensioner died, benefits would continue to be paid to the widow and dependents.
More important, the bill decreed that beginning in 1975, Social Security benefits were to be keyed to the Consumer Price Index.
American companies are adding to the trend by moving more of their important operations to India: John Chambers, Cisco's boss, has decreed that 20% of the firm's leadership should be in Bangalore.
The Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games Council decreed last year that a maximum of seven track and field athletes would be included in the overall squad.
George V had decreed that the titles Royal Highness (HRH) and prince and princess should be restricted to the children of the sovereign, the children of the sovereign's sons, and the eldest son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales.
For one thing, Congress has decreed that by 2015, one-third of America's combat ground-vehicles must be autonomous.
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