Sentences with phrase «first think tank»

[75] National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Development of a New Architecture for the Delivery of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Fact Sheet No. 2: outcomes of the first think tank, NACCHO, Canberra, 2008.

In 1974, he founded the Worldwatch Institute, one of the first think tanks to focus on the global environmental situation (its agenda - setting yearly reports, State of the World, remain required reading among the green set).

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Based in New York City, the organization was labeled by Google as a «think tank» focused on developing technology to help people in emerging markets get online for the first time.

A Chinese government think tank has identified 35 major cities at «high risk» of a residential property price correction, including China's major first - and second - tier cities.

«It is the first time the Libertarian ticket will have more government experience than the Republican ticket, and that is astonishing,» says Stan Veuger, a resident scholar and economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.

According to the New Yorker, The Mercatus Center was first founded and funded by the billionaire conservative Koch Brothers, and the small think tank advocates environmental deregulation.

In the 1990's, Wysopal was one of the original vulnerability researchers at The L0pht, a hacker think tank, where he was one of the first to publicize the risks of insecure software.

A think tank is marking the first anniversary of Jack...

In October, the Climate Leadership Team — an advisory group appointed by the government representing municipalities, First Nations, industry, academia, and think tanks — submitted its recommendations to the premier.

It was, after all, the C.D. Howe Institute that first came up with the TFSA concept and, critically, Morneau was once a board chair of that same think tank.

SCL's main offering, first developed by its affiliated London think tank in 1989, involves gathering vast quantities of data about an audience's values, attitudes and beliefs, identifying groups of «persuadables,» and then targeting them with tailored messages.

This claim that the future calls for corporate, interdisciplinary theological inquiry leads to the conclusion that futuristic research institutes and «think - tanks» are needed by the religious community as well as by secular agencies as we approach the twenty - first century.

There are rich pickings for food makers focusing on innovative products for the breakfast market, as a UK think tank finds less than one in five consumers actually enjoys the first meal of the day.

That they didn't play like this in the first leg is, I think, because they treated us like we had treated Ostersunds: a bit of a foregone conclusion, given how we've tanked domestically.

There aren't, it's fair to say, many here who, on first glance, have much in common with Dee, but with her recently acquired celebrity status, she was invited to speak at a fringe event hosted by the Policy Exchange think tank.

Having worked in a number of think tanks down the years, I always found that backbenchers were the least interested in our work, while we were on first name terms with the most senior politicians - people who recognised the power of (new) ideas.

The first was from the Resolution Foundation, a think tank chaired by Conservative peer David Willetts and run by Torsten Bell, previously adviser to former Labour leader Ed Miliband.

Leading think tank the IFS has published a new report claiming Chancellor Philip Hammond faces a financial headache at his first Autumn Statement later this month.

Research released today by the King's Fund health think tank showed A&E waiting times in the first quarter of 2013 were the highest in nearly ten years.

The first, from think - tank New Economics Foundation (NEF), asserted that it is surprising that the single largest transport investment in UK history, HS2, has only been assessed on its own merits rather than against what the # 33 billion cost could achieve if more evenly spread across the transport network.

Yet, if anything, the indispensability of this text lies in the fact that five years after the first coalition government was formed since the Second World War, a wide variety of esteemed experts from Whitehall, Parliament, academia and think tanks have given their professional and intriguing assessments of the «Coalition effect» across all major policy areas.

They first met at least a decade ago when FM was working at a centre left think tank and their children go to the same school in South - West London.

EJ McMahon, with the conservative leaning think tank The Empire Center, likened the first items to a big box delivered from Federal Express or UPS.

Living in Washington, DC my work focused on government relations and public policy analysis, first as a research assistant at a public policy think tank and later as a vice president in a government relations public relations agency.

The newly - appointed shadow business secretary Ken Clarke gave his first speech in his new post today, to a conference hosted by the think - tank, Reform, at the London Stock Exchange.

Dean Cheng, a research fellow on Chinese political and security affairs at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative public policy think tank, sees Chang» e 2's orbital gymnastics as part national pride, part scientific curiosity, and part political move: doing things at a First World level.

Reborn, I left my ivory tower to see if I could make a difference in my own city of Binghamton, New York, and worldwide through the creation of the Evolution Institute, the world's first evolutionary think tank.

With an undergraduate degree in nursing and a master's in health promotion, completed in 1995, from TMDU, Moriguchi first worked at a health policy think tank in Tokyo and then in August 1999 joined the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology where he worked on policy issues related to drug evaluation and medical economics.

The study, led by the Berlin - based think - tank Global Climate Forum (GCF) and involving the University of Southampton, presents, for the first time, comprehensive global simulation results on future flood damages to buildings and infrastructure in coastal flood plains.

The move is a first step towards establishing carbon trading markets in China and further evidence of the country's commitment to tackling climate change, says Felix Preston of Chatham House, a foreign - policy think tank based in London.

The America First Energy Conference is organized by The Heartland Institute, a free market think tank at the forefront of denying manmade climate change.

Think easy access button up shirts, tank tops or bathrobes to make the first days of nursing even easier.

I think it should read «recovery from Zone 4 training is quicker than other high - intensity training zones,» The first part about the 3 tank car sounds a lot like how my Prius works.

I had anorexia when I was 14, and then since then have been trying to be «healthy,» by doing at first doing high intensity, but eventually drifting into some sort of low intensity cardio everyday (b / c did not have the energy for high intensity stuff anymore) and learning everything I could about food and what to eat / what not to eat (obsessive might be a good word to use here haha)... Mainly following «Nourishing Traditions» wisdom, but also did GAPS for over a year — while living a high stress lifestyle, which I'm pretty sure tanked my adrenals among other things (think my thyroid was already pretty hypo at that point).

I thought the skirt and tank in the first outfit were the Leith dress from Nordstrom.

First of all, I get too hot real fast and I can usually be found in a tank and shorts with sandals because I like the effortless feel where I don't have too think too much and still feel comfortable.

I think the moment where Anomaly Warzone Earth — I don't see a colon on the game's website; letting all three words of the title evenly plod from the mouth pleasingly highlights its Eastern European pedigree — really grabbed me was the first time I rerouted my caravan of tanks and mechanized walkers to loop to endlessly...

The think tank's first release, The Lego Movie, is being cultivated into a franchise that will extend to next winter's The Lego Batman Movie.

After the first film, which was on my list of the ten best films of 2001, I was ecstatic about the possibilities of a sequel, but after this satisfying but occasionally dull entry, I'm starting to think there's no gas left in the creativity tank for our irreverent heroes.

While one of the first things we recall when we think of Hasköy today are shopping malls, when one thinks about Güzeltepe streets, three things immediately come to mind: 1 - Graffitti — graffiti on the walls entailing the political demands of tens of different revolutionary organizations, 2 - Small tanks — or as they are referred to in the neighborhood jargon, scorpions — doing constant surveillance on the streets, 3 - Surveillance cameras installed at central points throughout the neighborhood.

She was one of the first people in ed - reform to understand that we weren't going to beat the teachers unions with op - eds and policy papers (as much as it pains me, a think - tank guy, to say that).

In a similar vein, Jennifer Vranek and her colleagues at Education First write, «Past accountability systems were the darlings of policy makers, think tanks, foundations, editorial boards, and advocates; they rarely had the support of educators, school communities, and the public writ large.

Some point to the release of a paper called «The Hangover» in September 2012, sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank that advocates for broad reform, as one of the first signs of this growing dispute going public.

We first heard about Zaya via the Christensen Institute, a nonprofit think tank that has been out front in studying blended learning and student - centered design around the world.

A second system — the first statewide voucher system in the country, which was struck down by the Florida Supreme Court in 2006 — gave vouchers to public school students in a «failing school» to move to a public or private school of their choice, according to the conservative think tank, Washington Policy Center.

Education Trust West, a nonprofit think tank that opposes «last - in, first - out» policies, calculated that impoverished schools are 65 percent more likely to have a teacher laid off than schools with few low - income students.

He notes the convergence of three important trends: first, the rise in strategic education philanthropy; second, the decline in federal funding, in part due to ideologically contested priorities; and third, the growing influence of nonacademic think tanks operating outside the constraints of university - based research.

This was one of the questions think - tanks, policymakers and community leaders grappled with during the first conference on Data & Civil Rights last October.

«PLS accounts differ from a traditional savings account in that each participant has the opportunity to win a lottery in the form of money or prizes instead of earning a competitive interest rate on balances,» says Kate Lawton, brand manager with Filene Research Institute (FRI), a U.S. consumer financial think tank that worked with the Michigan Credit Union League and Doorways to Dream Fund to offer the first PLS in the U.S., in Michigan.

It was, after all, the C.D. Howe Institute that first came up with the TFSA concept and, critically, Finance Minister Bill Morneau was once a board chair of that same think tank.