Perhaps because he would rather be out on the water than in a superfluous meeting, he has delegated more responsibility, and established clearer chains of command throughout Serono than did his father, who took a more paternalistic approach.

ECONOMIST: Smooth sailing, so far

Even if the entire ACA is repealed and the snowballs are rolled back up the mountain, I am cheered by the fact that many people out there are creating an avalanche that will change our current paternalistic approach in health care.

FORBES: Can Patients Make Good Decisions?

He found that Canada was a land of distinct communities and regions with their own anxieties, from the seasonal loggers and fishermen of British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces to the farmers of the prairie states, who were worried about gun-registration laws and the paternalistic approach of Ottawa towards native peoples.

ECONOMIST: Canada

The whole approach is one of paternalistic generosity.

ECONOMIST: Where Wisconsin goes, can the world follow?

The Wik judgment, by overturning paternalistic notions of aborigines' status, may force Australia to try a new approach.

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