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Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross-functional teams.

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are.

By contrast, a Danish tax on foods high in fats was abandoned a year after its introduction, amid claims that consumers were avoiding it by crossing the border to Germany to satisfy their desire for cheaper, fattier fare.

For more than a decade, FedEx has supported the American Red Cross in its effort to get emergency supplies to areas affected by disasters, both domestically and internationally.

Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross functional teams.

The day before I spoke to Martinez in November, he had beer touring the damage from Hurricane Michael in Florida with the American Red Cross.

Although a team may be composed of knowledgeable people, they must learn new ways of relating and working together to solve cross-functional problems.

The first woman to cross the English Channel was Gertrude Ederle in 1926.

Believing in such a world, many governments have put an end to some of the very necessary regulations on cross-border flows of capital, labour and goods, with poor results.

Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher star in the musical comedy by Betty Comden and Adolph Green,about a broadway producer who tries to win a movie star's love during a cross-country train journey.

On day 3 we cross into Belgium.

On January 31, a musher named Seppala had to cross a frozen body of water called Norton Sound.

One afternoon, I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller stuck going over a fence—which wasn't hard to climb if you had both arms.

One chilly night when I was hiking in the rocky mountains with some students, I mentioned that we were going to cross a mountain stream.

She would have to cross it by stepping from sleeper to sleeper.

Shortly after crossing the start line, my shoe laces became untied.

Soon she was at the bridge that crossed the des moines river, a bridge also built of wood, just like the bridge across honey creek.

Then we crossed paths at a church fund-raiser.

They may even do the same thing while crossing a road at a pedestrian crossing or elsewhere.

Using expansive gestures with open arms makes us feel more powerful, crossing your arms makes you more determined and lying down can bring more insights.

With great care she began the dangerous crossing, sometimes on her hands and knees, hardly daring to look down between the sleepers into the wild flood waters below.

And in Europe, some are up in arms over a proposal to drop a specific funding category for social-science research and to integrate it within cross-cutting topics of sustainable development.

The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the 15th- and 16th-century explorations of North America.

Indeed, this period of economic weakness may reinforce class divides, and decrease opportunities to cross them—especially for young people.

Many Americans regard the jury system as a concrete expression of crucial democratic values, including the principles that all citizens who meet minimal qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries; that jurors should be sel

This law abolished special educational requirements for federal jurors and required them to be selected at random from a cross section of the entire community.