Sentences with phrase «big policy points»

Knowing that is very helpful, and will force you to spend some time on knowing big policy points.

So those are sort of my big policy points that I hope we'll think about as we continue this discussion today.

Not exact matches

«If I had the wherewithal to wave a wand and have policy - makers pay attention to the real job creators in this country, I would point out that finding qualified people is the biggest impediment to growth,» he says.

All of which, as Salon blogger Andrew Leonard points out, sounds like basic big - government, tax - and - spend Democratic policy.

But actually, Evans» point of clarification on this issue is soooo important, since it gets at one of the biggest confusions about monetary policy and interest rates today.

«Obama doesn't have big policy successes to point to, which he would need as the incumbent, and Romney doesn't have bold new policy proposals.»

But the bigger point is that monetary policy alone can't deliver everything we need and expecting too much from it can lead, in time, to much bigger problems.

In Part II of our series, we'll go into who the big institutional investors are, their policies and barriers, and our suggestions for how they can push this financial and innovation opportunity over the tipping point.

but a t some point he lost it, and is not because of his stinginess to buy players, our core is good and has been for sometime now, his biggest problem was adaptation, change to the new EPL, his philosophy dating back 20 years does not work anymore and he knows it, because of this his biggest flaw all others came out to light, lack of rotation of his players favoring some over others, stubbornness that applies to his transfer policy buying for the future just as he had 20 more years ahead, players playing out of their natural positions, ARSENAL FLOPS who knows under other Managers they could have been great, for some reason they were signed in the first place, they must had some talent, best example is Campbell....

My point is clear, the rumor was BIG bullshit, but Arsene really have to realize this, he has his main man loyalty, so he must compensate that with real policy to change Arsenal.

I was just tying to point out to one of many desires a true fan has with his club.What lack of brains are you talking, when you yourself need some in seeing the big picture about the lack of trophies we had and I was just trying to prove that «Galacticos» idea can help wenger in his youth driven policies.

@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................

But it's no secret that the biggest sticking point of all was the minimum wage increase, which the governor made clear for weeks leading up to the April 1 deadline was his top policy priority.

Brown's thesis is a strong rebuttal to a commonly held point of view, arguing that a «strong» leader — defined as someone who «concentrates a lot of power in [their] hands, dominates both a wide swath of public policy and the political party to which [they] belong, and takes the big decisions» (p. 1)-- is ultimately an undesirable leader.

That requires some big and really bold policies, such as — childcare free at the point of use; building 10,000 social houses every year; raising real wages and tackling insecure work.

Whitehall officials pointed to common interests in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan - but observers pointed out the biggest foreign policy intervention since the Cold War, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, would have been unlikely to meet with joint support.

Altogether, these policies provided public - sector housing with its biggest - ever boost up until that point, while low - wage earners particularly benefited from these developments.

Turner's biggest turning point came when former New York City Mayor Ed Koch crossed party lines to endorse him, hoping a Republican win in the district would send a message to Obama on the president's policies toward Israel.

«The bigger point is, in terms of environmental policy, I think this is a dubious approach,» she said.

It's easier to imagine the Liberal Democrats doing so: one doesn't need to list the rows that have taken place over VAT, student finance, housing benefit, the immigration cap and so on to prove the point (though some of the Government's biggest disagreements, such as those over prisons policy or the EU, are concentrated within one of the Coalition parties, the Conservatives, rather than between them).

We made a point of trying to get away from the campaign to cover the choice: the 6 and 10 did a series on big issues, from airports to defence spending to social care, that weren't getting much play in the campaign; Newsnight interrogated the future of the NHS; Andrew Neil's series of Daily Politics debates analysed policy, department by department over two weeks; and, online, from Reality Check to constituency profiles, we scrutinised the detail.

The real point is that any genuine Labour policies are a world away from market fundamentalism, deregulated finance, indiscriminate privatisation of public services, fostering of inequality, and courting of Big Business, all of which both New Labour and the Tories agree on.

Man in a Shed, yes it seems like a no brainer to me, and its an issue he can get angry about Labour's discrimination against English people, wrong footing Labour and putting them on the back foot with the biggest electoral group, and as you rightly point out, its not a policy Brown can pinch.

Paige makes some important point about the bigger policy issues that are being dodged when we focus solely on teacher tenure rather than larger systemic problems.

This, in turn, points out a reality that neither the Obama Administration nor Beltway wonks such as Petrilli fail to admit: That No Child has been the single - biggest advance in education policy, both at the federal level and among states and local governments, since the Defense Education Act of 1958.

Choosing a school is one of the key points at which parents experience national policy through a local lens, and as such, should be an important election issue both in the big debates and on the doorstep.

He wanted to talk about political influence and big - money funders through the lens of two reform - oriented school systems — New Orleans (suggesting that teacher layoffs could be blamed on TFA and not Hurricane Katrina) and Chicago (pointing to school closings and mayoral control, as if either of those two policies had anything to do with TFA).

One of the big selling points of the Indexed Universal Life policy is the fact that you never lose cash value, because there is a floor of 0 % (sometimes 1 %).

As always, policy makers made a point of mentioning the troubles of growing household debt, citing it as the biggest domestic economic risk.

On point # 2, I'd defend Merkel by saying that policy implications need a big enough sample that you can reasonably hold other factors constant.

(The Bank of Canada dropped its policy rate by a half percentage point in 2015, but prime rates at the Big Six fell only 0.3 percentage point.)

The annual escalations in term life insurance costs are the biggest item insurance agents point to when selling whole life insurance policies.

The biggest downside to the Business Advantage Travel card is its rigid redemption policy, which doesn't allow you to transfer your points to other programs.

The former director of the National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner, called the Ebacc policy one of the «biggest disasters of the last seven years» and pointed with disdain to an assertion by the former education secretary Nicky Morgan that arts subjects could hold pupils back for years.

But the video also describes clearly how science - based fishery policies — and common - sense practices like releasing the «BOFFFs», the big old fat female fish — can bring a species back the point where reasonable harvests may be sustained.

> If I had a big policy job, in my capacity as an office holder, I would be guided by the reports of institutions such as IPCC rather than any personal views (a point I've made on a number of occasions); and that I believed that policy decisions could be made without requiring «statistical significance» (such decisions are made in business all the time, and, in all my years in business, I never heard the words «statistical significance» pass anyone's lips as a preamble to a business decision.

I would like to focus on policy and progress for the big picture, not the down in the weeds talking points and cherry picked data that is not presented in a full, policy relevant context..

This combination allowed the team to do a much more detailed assessment of the way different policies would affect decisions by the power producers and distributors — a key point, since the electricity sector has the most immediate potential for changes that could reduce emissions, and is the biggest contributor to emissions overall.

He said that from an economic point of view, it would be more rational to spend lots of money on today's other big problems, and only make small and limited changes in policies relating to global warming, such as a slight increase in gasoline or carbon taxes.

We pointed out that the Government's GST policy document made no mention whatsoever of the environmental implications of big cuts in the prices of diesel and petrol.

Tim Lambert links to this article by Eric Pooley in Slate's The Big Moneye which points out that, for all the disagreement among economists regarding the details of climate change policy, there is substantial consensus on the following main points (i) the cost of action to stabilise atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases will be of the order of 1 per cent of GDP (ii) a strong mitigation policy is preferable to business as usual

IMO their estimate of the taxes needed to accomplish this were very low (and discussant Paul Joskow pointed this out in his included remarks, noting that other people estimated these taxes as being 20 times bigger because they assumed that CO2 emissions would grow a lot faster without the tax), but for what it's worth they found a fairly small equivalent variation (loss) of about $ 250 billion (in 1990 dollars) for the U.S. in carrying out this policy.

Steve: it is an editorial policy of this site that readers refrain from efforts to prove or disprove «big picture» points in a few paragraphs.

The point being here that the bigger problem than sceptics descending on uncertainty is in fact the over-statement of certainty by, not just journalists, but also policy makers and scientists.

Climate change is not yet dangerous, and two degrees of warming (2 °C) is the appropriate focus for policy - making, because 2 °C impacts are manageable and big tipping points are unlikely before 2 °C.

The point was tipped when Big Oil prevailed over science in the battle for the hearts and minds of policy makers in North America.

Whether you are guilty, innocent, negligent, or reckless is not relevant at this point because clients see a high net worth target (possibly with a big legal malpractice policy) as do some of their lawyers, media outlets can run sensational headlined «news» pieces, and although your are technically presumed innocent, police investigations operate under a presumption of guilt not so subtle premise — especially when the media spotlight is involved.

Up to this point, we have been seeing situations in which we get an affidavit from a big organization that says it is going to take us two years and cost a million dollars to respond to what the plaintiff wants, with no particularity to it, with nothing that provides us with anything of what the policy is.

There is no point, don't let the big box life insurance companies trick you into thinking a 5 - year term policy is better than a 10 - year term life policy because it isn't.

Once that happened, they faced a big tax bill on any sums they'd withdrawn over the years — undermining a key selling point for these policies when they were invented.