Sentences with phrase «policy officials»

The roundtable included scientists, journalists and science policy officials.

She explained her study is aimed at education policy officials who are deciding whether to have high - stakes tests that determine who moves on and who is held back.

And to the extent asset prices matter to monetary policy officials, recent weakness in Canadian housing prices could warrant a go - slow approach.

These developments carry broad implications for the work of central bankers and other policy officials.

In addition to her academic work, Alexandra has over ten years of experience as a lawyer in Vancouver representing First Nations governments and as a senior policy official at the City of Toronto.

At that point, the companies would have to begin haggling to fend off some proposals that would be intolerable, according to a top policy official at a major internet company.

The updated site offers useful content for consumers, public policy officials and GPI's membership.

Similarly Indian prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh taught economics at Harvard he was a senior economic policy official for India for many years before he came into politics.

This acknowledgment came the day after a senior Chinese climate policy official said rich nations should earmark a wopping 1 % of their GDP to help the developing world tackle climate change.

Top policy officials at the AARP are trying to make the future of Social Security and Medicare top issues for the 2012 election cycle.

Pam Keith, an attorney who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 2016, and Lauren Baer, a foreign policy official in the Obama administration whose family owns Baer's Furniture, qualified to run for the seat this week.

Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget and one of the Trump administration's most senior economic policy officials, struck a similar note in his own farewell note about Cohn, saying he «never expected that the coworker I would work closest, and best, with at the White House would be a «globalist.

The new research published Monday in Nature was done by Carolyn Snyder, now a climate policy official at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as a part of her doctoral dissertation at Stanford University, according to the Associated Press (AP).

Maxwell has been a key policy official for the current administration.

Facebook policy official Matt Perault gamely explained his company's new party line: Facebook (fb) will throw the same energy and resources into fixing its privacy problems as it did to build Facebook.

Earlier this year it appeared that economic and financial policy officials were finally coming together with an effective approach to addressing the critical debt crisis in the smaller «peripheral» economies of the Eurozone — Greece, Ireland, Portugal — and ring - fencing the other Eurozone economies, particularly Spain, Italy, and Belgium, from the risks of contagion.

Another cable, from 2009, recounts a senior Industry Canada policy official asking a U.S. counterpart to put public pressure on Canada to create the needed justification to give Washington what it wanted.

Tabling oral and written questions has a similar effect, as pressure mounts on policy officials and special advisers in a department to find answers, and to consider why so many questions are being asked on a particular issue.

On the other hand, while policy officials accept that Trident has little value as a strategic weapon that will ever actually be used, they do see it as a diplomatic weapon.

New York and other hight - tax blue states are scoring wins against legislation in health care and tax reform battles that have turned backed policies officials say would have been harmful.

Mr Hands, MP for Chelsea and Fulham, said that his department had a strong core of trade policy officials which had quadrupled in size since June 24 last year — the day after the EU referendum — and was continuing to grow, with policy and country specialists as well as economic analysts and lawyers.

A look at China's recent progress on climate and energy shows that China has indeed made strides in both — policies its officials here say are in the country's own national interest.

Chimeras can provide better ways to test the efficacy of drugs and vaccines than existing methods, says Carrie Wolinetz, an NIH policy official.

Senior policy officials outlined strategies last week at a meeting sponsored by the Institute for Global Health in San Francisco.

So did Jim Shelton, a top policy official who is now acting deputy secretary.

Our task as advocates is to inspire policy officials, utilities, community leaders and decision makers to replace regulatory barriers with leadership and implement policy initiatives that make it easier, rather than harder, for truly green building.

Technical negotiators work on nuts and bolts in the early sessions, then policy officials try to turn those into desired outcomes at the political level, when ministers meet during the final days of the conference.

Mr. Baron is the founder and former president of the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that worked with federal policy officials from 2001 to 2015 to advance important evidence - based reforms, many of which were enacted into law and policy.

«The glaring need for more new - home construction is creating an affordability crisis that needs to be addressed by policy officials and local governments,» Yun says.

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Yet a preventive military strike is precisely what America's key foreign policy officials are threatening to unleash.

I would set up a national scholarship program for teachers, school leaders and state policy officials to dedicate some of their own vacation time at Federal expense to visit high performing systems outside and across the US and to report on what they have learned to their own legislatures.

Prior to his current role, he was education policy official for Mayor Bloomberg, a second grade teacher and Teach For America corps member, a Fulbright Scholar in Thailand, and a director of corporate Strategy at the Advisory Board Company.

To increase our contributions to these efforts, the Nature Museum plans to convene more forums with organizations, policy officials, municipalities, thought leaders, and individuals to dialogue about reducing greenhouse gas emissions and pursuing innovative clean energy sources that are good for the environment and create new jobs.

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If your child stays dry three out of five nights, it's probably okay to make your «all underwear, all the time» policy official.

Within the MoD and the corridors of Whitehall, the military and their civilian counterparts, the policy officials, are engaged in a bitter struggle.

Design and conduct trainings for students, community leaders, journalists, policy officials, lawyers, business leaders, postdoctoral fellows and others.

What is good design for a policy wonk, is not a good design for a parents and policy officials,» said John Bailey, a former Bush White House official, who now wears several hats in the education policy world, including vice president at the Foundation for Excellence in Education.

I worked in multi-disciplinary teams that included auditors, economists, engineers, medical staff, special investigators, and policy officials.

She had to learn how to network with different First Nations governments and overcome her fear of public speaking to present her research to public policy officials.