Sentences with phrase «based at the think tank»

Then: Bouchey, also known as L Francis Bouchey, was the director of a project known as Citizens for Sound Science and the Environment, based at the think tank Frontiers of Freedom.

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Lighthizer, who lacks his boss's need for public attention, appeared at a Washington - based think tank on Sept. 18 to explain at length why the administration is so obsessed with narrowing the trade deficit.

Lowe's and Fellow Robot announced the release of the LoweBot Tuesday at Silicon Valley - based think tank / university / incubator hybrid Singularity University's Global Summit.

«I expect very, very tough negations,» Zsolt Darvas, senior fellow at the Brussels - based think - tank Bruegel, told CNBC on Friday.

«It seems that we are in the middle of a base race across the Indian Ocean,» David Brewster, senior research fellow at at the Australian National University, wrote in a February note published on think tank The Lowy Institute.

The potential payoff in the parts sector can not be underestimated, notes Peter Frise, CEO of AUTO21, an industry think - tank based at the University of Windsor.

«Pulling out of NAFTA would be a horrendous mistake,» said former USDA chief economist Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, an agriculture think tank based in Washington.

Without a system for identifying regulations damaging to small business and addressing them in a targeted way, the executive order is meaningless, says Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that seeks nonpartisan solutions to national challenges.

History plays a large role, says Algernon Austin, senior research fellow at Washington, D.C. - based think tank Center for Global Policy Solutions.

«I'm worried that a lot of people have invested a lot of hope in G.D.P.R., and I'm not sure it's going to deliver,» said Ben Scott, a senior adviser to the Open Technology Institute at New America, a think tank based in Washington.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted sources as saying that Choe Son - hui, director - general of the North America bureau chief of the North Korean foreign ministry, was leading the delegation from Pyongyang, while Suzanne DiMaggio, director and senior fellow at Washington DC - based think tank New America, was heading the American delegation.

«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president of research and policy at the liberal - leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.

Neeraj Agrawal, director of communications at the Washington, DC. - based think tank Coin Center, also reported having trouble with his account, although it is not banned.

Barfi is a research fellow at the New America Foundation, a Washington - based think tank, where he specializes in Arab and Islamic affairs.

Nigel Cameron is President Emeritus at Washington based think tank The Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies and author of The Robots are Coming: Us, Them and God (Care).

«Fidel always talked over the heads of Cuba's bishops,» says Phil Peters, a Cuba analyst at the Lexington Institute, an Arlington, Virginia - based think tank.

Similarly, J. Justin Wilson, a senior researcher at the Center for Consumer Freedom, a think tank based in Washington, D.C., told the Tribune such bans represent a «fundamental infringement» on parental responsibility.

George McBride is a partner at Hanway Associates, a London - based cannabis consultancy, and policy director at the think tank Volteface.

A student fellowship at the Empire Center provides a unique work experience at a leading state - based think tank.

«Based on 2014 spending numbers, New York is one of about a dozen states, almost all in the Northeast, whose caps would be lowered as a result of this provision — potentially losing billions in aid,» said Bill Hammond, a health care analyst at the conservative - leaning Empire Center, an Albany think tank.

«It was irresistible for state and local officials to say, «Let's pocket that money and use it to replace our contributions so everyone can feel good about it,»» said James Parrott, chief economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute, a Manhattan - based liberal think tank.

Clinton will be the featured speaker at the tenth anniversary event later this month for the Center for American Progress, the influential Washington - based progressive think tank and activist group.

The International Crisis Group, a Brussels - based think tank, reports that there have been no fewer than 460 attacks and scores of suicide bombings leading to at least 15,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced persons.

«Blacks and Latinos have aligned goals on issues such as economics and healthcare because African - Americans and Hispanics have similar problems in those areas,» said David Bositis, senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that studies public policy issues affecting African - Americans.

«The need [for infrastructure improvements] is clearly tremendous,» said Adam Forman, a senior researcher at the Manhattan - based public policy think tank Center for an Urban Future.

The influence and popularity of El - Naggar — as a frequent guest on Arab satellite television, he reaches an audience of millions — does not sit well with Gamal Soltan, a political scientist at Al - Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, a Cairo - based think tank.

Sales frozen by protectionism «Chinese cities show a strong protectionism when it comes to buying clean cars,» said An Feng, executive director at the Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation, a China - focused think tank based in Los Angeles.

At WRI, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank, her group specialized on issues of environment, development, and human health.

«We're living through a crisis of mainstream politics,» says Carl Miller at London - based think tank Demos.

«The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) might all lay claim,» Servick wrote, and «many new technologies don't fit neatly into the purview of one office,» according to a report from the Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington, D.C. — based think tank.

«Assuming that technology will allow ever more shale gas production at low prices — and betting energy policy and the future energy security of the country on it — is risky business,» says geologist David Hughes, who retired from the Canadian Geological Survey and is now doing assessments of shale gas and oil for the nonprofit Post Carbon Institute, a California - based environmental think tank.

Reg Platt is a research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, a think tank based in London

«We don't know how much time Beijing has and we don't know whether the incremental approach they've used in the past is still possible,» says Gudrun Wacker, a China policy specialist at German Institute for International and Security Affairs, a Berlin - based think tank.

Rather than Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, a middle - aged male Ph.D. toiling at a large U.S. firm — and perhaps born abroad — is more likely to be behind the next big thing, conclude researchers from George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Virginia, and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington, D.C. — based think tank.

Several Democratic senators cited media reports that staffers on the Trump transition team are pushing a proposal by the conservative Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C. — based think tank, to make deep cuts at DOE.

He is now a distinguished senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based conservative think tank.

«The drug was so good it broke the blind,» says Bernard Munos, a senior fellow at FasterCures, a think tank based at the Milken Institute — meaning the positive trial results were so clear that patients and doctors could easily tell who was receiving the drug and who got a placebo.

Based on that book I was invited to be a hormone scholar at an environmental estrogen hormone think tank at Tulane University where I really worked with the guys who were developing this new field.

Based on Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway's nonfiction report of the same name, Robert Kenner's documentary looks at the scientists hired by corporations and conservative think - tanks to appear on news programs, touting skewed data about public health issues and climate change.

The New York City school district's experience in implementing a new data - management system aimed at making a wealth of student - level data available to teachers is the subject of a new report by Education Sector, a Washington - based think tank.

«Economically disadvantaged students come to school behind on average,» said Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a Washington - based think tank.

Throughout the program, fellows also have a chance to analyze issues and problems on deeper levels by getting involved with case - based «think tank» seminars, including one led by Reimers that is looking at education reform in Brazil, among other «cutting - edge education challenges and solutions,» he says.

Think tank 2020health's latest report on obesity, which looks at prevention measures around the world, has shown that school - based measures must be complimented by other local policies to be most effective.

The May 23 conference at the Urban Institute, a think tank based here in the nation's capital, examined the policy implications for value - added statistical designs, which typically measure students» learning gains from one year to the next.

A 2010 study by the Brookings Institution, a center - left Washington, D.C. - based think tank, looked at one of HCZ's two Harlem charter schools and expressed grave concerns about the resources required to expand the HCZ model.

Robert Holland, a senior fellow at the Lexington Institute, a Virginia - based think tank, raised the issue of cheating.

The Center for Education Policy, a nonpartisan think tank at George Washington University, based its survey findings on the responses of leaders in 211 of the nation's school districts.

«This is definitely a case of poking the teachers union in the eye,» said Michael Petrilli, vice president at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington - based education think tank.

This is why the Times rightfully asked a qualified researcher at Rand Corp., the Santa Monica - based think tank, to devise a sophisticated statistical model in an attempt to isolate the discrete effect of pedagogical skills on student growth.

He has previously worked at the Grattan Institute, an independent policy think tank based in Melbourne, Australia.