Sentences with phrase «of wonks»

They will have to justify, at least within the small community of wonks who follow this stuff, what other fundamental elements in their forecast out to 2020 were changed to match the 2020 number.

For instance, none of our wonks focused overly much on school closure as a strategy toward greatness; most seem to see it as a way to raise the floor.

Twenty three education policy wonks (or teams of wonks) answered this question as part of Fordham's 2018 Wonkathon

Repetition of talking points passes for political discussion, and serious interest in issues and options is treated as the idiosyncrasy of wonks.

Both of these capacious minds, I suspect, would have felt rather out of place in today's technocratic world of wonks and white papers, with its distinction between «politics» and «policy» — but more on that later.

«I think I was probably just a bit of a wonk,» he admits.

In his place, at the darkest of hours, there appeared unto Labour a new kind of leader: the Southern lay preacher, his soul transmogrified into the body of a wonk.

The more reserved John Faso, her opponent, comes across as studied and experienced, but something of a wonk in the ways of policy and government.

Going from «bad to good» was a major focus of the wonk - a-thon, and most of our pundits posited that strong policies were essential.

I liked them both, but I am an economic history buff, and a bit of a wonk.

Not exact matches

So when I finally pick him out of the swarm, I'm able to drop the name of a mutual friend: «Parag Khanna sends his regards,» I say, referring to the foreign - policy wonk and author.

Some wonks — and more than a few members of Congress — are seizing on language in the 14th Amendment they claim would let the White House order the Treasury to borrow.

The only thing that surprised me, perhaps because I still think of him as the young Wonk - in - Chief of 20 years ago, is his appearance.

Britain's productivity crisis has been a driving force behind the dismal economic growth that has characterised its economy since 2009, and policy wonks are increasingly concerned, with Chancellor Philip Hammond last week announcing billions of pounds of extra investment more pounds to his «National Productivity Investment Fund.»

Imagine him like one of the adults from Charlie Brown, making unintelligible WONK WONK WONK noises.

Environmental sustainability is no longer the exclusive purview of non-governmental organizations and policy wonks.

TAMPA — Standing in front of an audience of several thousand scientists, data wonks, geospatial intelligence analysts and other big thinkers, Army Gen. Tony Thomas drew some laughs when he talked about the time he felt the urge to toss Google CEO Eri...

Conservative wonks like to dangle images of companies taking advantage of the big new influx of funds to build factories and hire workers, because that paints an appealing picture of what the strategy amounts to.

As a side point, perhaps interesting to monetary wonks here at OTE, the title's insistence on the 1993 vintage of the Taylor rule is out of step with much research on the variables, values, and coefficients that would go into such a rule today.

The civil service of the 21st century will require grad level machine learning far more than the policy wonk paper shufflers of the last century.

A possible political career for Sandberg has been mentioned a lot before, too — especially since she has been a Washington wonk before (she worked as chief of staff to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in the last Clinton administration before moving to Silicon Valley to work at Google).

With Hillary Clinton's tax proposals to encourage longer - term investing, the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. primary season.

I am one of many finance wonks who has studied dividends for years and have come to conclude that dividends are «sticky» because companies that start paying dividends usually continue to do so.

Over at Breitbart News, the lodestar of the Trump administration, readers variously dubbed it «Ryancare,» «Obamacare 2.0,» «Soroscare» or, for the wonks, «unEarned Income Tax Credit II.»

United States steel producers and consumers, not to mention international trade wonks, have been waiting with bated breath for the release of the Commerce Department's report on its Section 232 investigation of steel imports.

Pence didn't have a reputation for legislative acumen («I would not call Mike a policy wonk,» one former staffer told the Indianapolis Monthly), and some of his colleagues called him a nickname behind his back: «Mike Dense.»

What Republicans can do is use the findings of the Oregon study and the work of conservative wonks to address people's health care and earnings concerns.

Those ubiquitous network news stories about the «common people» whose lives are destroyed by out - of - touch policy wonks inside the Beltway do not meet any reasonable criteria for the appropriate political use of emotion and narrative particularity.

While this debate has provided fodder for policy wonks, it has not had much influence on Capitol Hill which seems poised to allow federal unemployment benefits to lapse without much of an alternative strategy for getting the long term jobless working again.

What a tragedy it is when we collectively dismiss the goals and aspirations of the entrepreneur, the artist, the writer, the thinker, because their world is more self - consuming than the simple bureaucratic policy wonk would have us believe.

When I see salary cap wonks talk about the kinds of players that would need to be included in a basketball trade to make it work, it makes me roll my eyes and thank the stars that I'm a baseball fan.

Although the film has national reach, Lunch Line is a Chicago story through and through: at the post-screening discussion, the co-directors, Michael Graziano and Ernie Park, found themselves reunited with several of the food - service experts, policy wonks, corporate executives and community activists depicted in their film.

The inarticulate «wonk wonk wonk» of the store manager is blaring out of the announcement system and competing with the world's most annoying music.

Mr Mitter may disappoint military wonks hoping for a blow - by - blow account of every skirmish.

Policy wonks from a variety of political backgrounds have sought to generalize this concept to establish a «universal basic income» that everyone gets simply for being alive paid for with tax funds.

She throws them a bit of Olympics because it's the sort of thing political wonks think normal people like (and they're probably right).

The wonks of Westminster scratch their heads at opinion polls that show Labour and Conservatives neck and neck.

In private, Lib Dem policy wonks would look a bit bemused and sort of accept that, yes, perhaps, maybe the party's policy of abolishing the CTF wasn't right, but the party had to stick with it to «make the figures add up» and that, «after the election», there would be a rethink.

However, the unpredictable nature of this primary election has not stopped a seemingly endless array of pundits, wonks, and psychics from bombarding the airwaves with their half - witted predictions.

Clinton became governor again at 34, and Hillary forever stepped into the spotlight as a political wonk in her own right, spearheading efforts on education reform (previously, Hillary's feminist, Midwestern background, lack of accent, and thick - rimmed glasses did not sit well with Southern Democrats).

In a city full of policy wonks and experts, we need to respect how Kony 2012 humanized the issue's problem, with a simple target: a person who is clearly bad.

While political parties have become increasingly sophisticated organisations with a cadre of professional policy wonks, media managers and spin doctors, when it comes to fighting elections they remain heavily dependent on a large number of volunteers to knock on doors, deliver leaflets and make phone calls.

It will require alchemists, not policy wonks or providers, to transform cuts of this magnitude into gold.»

Significantly, one type of engagement does not exclude the other, even policy wonks feel joy, and enthusiasm can be a gateway to deeper and more long - lasting commitment.

I know that Cameron's policy wonks have been reading our manual; they might get more out of it if they also consulted the engineers.

The parade of Oxbridge policy wonks dropped from on high is symptomatic of a shallow, undemocratic Party: it unimaginable today that a young Dennis Skinner would even get on a shortlist.

Garodnick is a Manhattan Democrat known for being a bit of a policy wonk, and has told people a campaign could be run on strong management of a city that is concerned about homelessness and quality - of - life.

«What these right - wing policy wonks in their nostalgia for the divisive years of Mrs Thatcher don't understand is that unions do not just benefit their members, but employers and wider society too.

Mark Littlewood is the former LibDem head - of - spin who has become the chief wonk at the venerable Institute of Economic Affairs, the directorship of which comes with a (big for wonkland) # 100,000 pay package.

Like former Senator Adetunmbi, the other lead speakers, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, famed public intellectual and founding vice-chancellor of the Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State (the South West critique) and Dr. Charles Akinola (who as director - general, Osun Office of Economic Development and Partnerships, is the policy wonk strutting the Osun safety - net programmes), discharged themselves creditably.