Sentences with phrase «also public policy decisions»

«[Underwood] is an extremely capable lawyer, and the office primarily does litigation, but there are also public policy decisions that have to made,» such as how aggressively the office challenges the federal government to represent the interests of New Yorkers, Horner said.

Not exact matches

Corporations agree: «It makes so much sense that you would expect decisions like these to be made with your senior management, starting with your CEO,» says Tod MacKenzie, Aramark's head of public affairs, who also worked on animal welfare policies with Balk and HSUS at DineEquity, owner of the IHOP and Applebee's brands.

Policy - making in media regulation, particularly in the U.S. and to a large extent also in Australia, proceeds generally by forming, or at least undergirding, political decisions on the same «objective» and «scientific» basis developed for less ambiguous areas such as public engineering, economics, and regulation of public safety.

More controversially, they also cover material relating to government policy formulation (including the background information on which decisions were based) and anything else which «would in the reasonable opinion of a qualified person be likely to prejudice the effect conduct of public affairs» - something again left undefined in the Act.

But it's also raising alarms from critics who worry that key decisions about state energy policy are being rushed without enough public debate.

Two town employees already perform public information duties, but Saladino said Nevin also will be a top policy aide and involved in day - to - day decision - making on a range of issues, including trimming the town budget.

, he envisions a form of government that among other things includes the dissolution of the state, and indeed also a large number of citizen juries, selected by lot, that take decisions on public policy issues.

As he probed News International's extensive dealings with leading politicians over five premierships, extensive and sometimes cosy (Labour slumber parties, Tory country suppers and borrowed police horses), the judge detected «patterns of behaviour» suggesting that public policy decisions were also sometimes traded for favourable treatment in Fleet Street.

Before the election, Holt also joined Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and others in calling on the new administration to appoint a top - level science adviser to assist in the development of science related recommendations and contribute to the administration's decision - making process.

AAAS and its journal Science also provide objective, authoritative scientific information to help inform the public, and to guide science policy decisions.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Cornell University business ethics professor Dana Radcliffe, who also teaches ethics and public policy at Syracuse University, about the company's decision.

It also encourages and supports research at all levels of reading and language arts education to promote informed decision making by reading professionals, policy makers, and the public.

We also have increased citizen participation on all fronts, including engaging the public on departmental policy and regulations and in local transportation decision - making through our Ladders of Opportunity efforts and initiatives such as the Every Place Counts challenge.

It also provides recommendations in five key public policy areas for developing country government officials and donor agencies: public engagement, decision - relevant information, institutional design, tools for planning and policymaking, and resources.

We judge this to be a good policy when public health and also when substantial amounts of monies are involved, for example, when there are major policy decisions to be made based on statistical assessments.

The rule also provides that in selecting a Council decision as precedential, the DAB Chair may consider decisions that address, resolve, or clarify recurring legal issues, rules or policies, or that may have broad application or impact, or involve issues of public interest.

The decision does not provide additional guidance to determine in future cases whether bylaws requiring unit owner consent to pursue litigation are also against public policy.

Since 2003, the relevant regulatory authority for both television and radio has become the Office of Communications (Ofcom), and perhaps for the avoidance of doubt the basic rule receives further elaboration in CA 2003, s 321 (3), which provides that political objects include not only promoting political parties and influencing election outcomes, but also «influencing public opinion» and «influencing the policies or decisions of governments, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere».

In Singapore, cancer is still seen as a terminal disease with little hope of recovery, and there is also a stigma against psychological counselling and psychiatric support, facilitated by the general stigma against mental illness amongt both patients and, paradoxically, healthcare professionals.67 Furthermore, a family - centred model of decision - making tends to be predominant in Asian populations, 68 and in Singapore this is further encouraged by public policy such as healthcare subsidies that are based on a calculation of the immediate family's total income, rather than individual income.69 Beliefs or expectations of the role that the family caregiver ought to play may thus exist and may influence the way individuals respond to the intervention.

It is meant for all who are interested in this approach as professionals, as clients / patients and also as policy and decision makers in health care delivery and representatives of public and private health insurance schemes seeking to comprehend what this approach can offer.