Sentences with phrase «policy paper last»

Former Secretary of State George Shultz and former CIA director R. James Woolsey, co-chairs of a dire - sounding organization called The Committee on the Present Danger, wrote in a policy paper last year: «A plug - in hybrid averaging 125 mpg, if its fuel tank contains 85 per cent cellulosic ethanol, would be obtaining about 500 mpg [of gasoline].

As a policy paper last year from the Association of Oil Pipelines and the American Petroleum Institute points out, the economics are also iffy, partly because ethanol plants are relatively small and dispersed.

A customs partnership - first suggested in a British policy paper last year - is seen by some as a way of breaking the Irish border stalemate while preserving the ability to strike new trade deals.

Not exact matches

In its letter last night to Mr Cameron, Republic said: «The fact that... Charles has privileged access to Cabinet papers is a further cause for concern as it means he is able to lobby ministers in secret at every stage of policy development process.

This paper, however, proposes a different approach: Before pressing the overdrive button on money printing presses, Tokyo might wish to take a careful look at why the last 15 years of ultra-loose credit policies failed to move the economy closer to its estimated potential growth rate of 1.5 percent.

«These scooters literally just began showing up on our streets last fall,» Santa Monica's director of policy, Anuj Gupta, told the paper.

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.

The surprise release of China's first - ever Arctic policy white paper last week made international headlines.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

These papers — produced by the National Policy Forum (NPF)-- represent what we've learned from talking to members, supporters, affiliates, businesses and charities over the last three years, as well as the input of the Shadow Cabinet Policy Review.

Last week, both elected officials and the public learned from an article in the local paper that the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency (UCRRA) «announced plans to stop single - stream, or commingled, recyclables in 2019 and proposed doubling the fees for single - stream loads until the new policy was in place.»

«For the last 18 months, the College has actively engaged with the policy development process, from the publication in July 2010 of the Health and Social Care White Paper Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS, through to the various parliamentary stages of the bill, including the Future Forum's «Listening Exercise» last April and May.

Barbara Buchner, head of the Climate Policy Institute Europe, who has written some of the leading policy papers on climate finance, noted that the $ 364 billion that went to clean energy activity globally last year is a pittance compared to the $ 1 trillion that the International Energy Institute says is needed annPolicy Institute Europe, who has written some of the leading policy papers on climate finance, noted that the $ 364 billion that went to clean energy activity globally last year is a pittance compared to the $ 1 trillion that the International Energy Institute says is needed annpolicy papers on climate finance, noted that the $ 364 billion that went to clean energy activity globally last year is a pittance compared to the $ 1 trillion that the International Energy Institute says is needed annually.

A white paper released by the Brookings Institution last week charts a new policy to cut U.S. greenhouse emissions.

He said the IOC and UNEP have received copies of the new paper and another article about Olympic shooting policy co-authored by Thomas and published last year in AMBIO, a publication of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

«Our next step is to perform a health - economic analysis to show that the reduction in multiple pregnancy rates results does indeed result in a financial benefit for the government, so that the refunding of six cycles is still a responsible policy,» said Professor Thomas D'Hooghe, last author of the paper and head of the Leuven University Fertility Center.

Last month, they raised questions about whether he and co-authors had followed journal disclosure policies in a paper published by Science Bulletin, a journal published in China.

«The paper policy is an example of how Disney conducts business in an environmentally and socially responsible way, and demonstrates the Company's commitment to creating a lasting, positive impact on ecosystems and communities worldwide,» said Beth Stevens, Disney's senior vice president of corporate citizenship, environment and conservation, in a statement.

Last year Clifford Stott of the University of Liverpool in England and his colleagues published in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law a paper that relates a giant experiment at the Euro2004 championship finals.

Last November, CALDER released a paper exploiting a similar policy change in Washington state.

We provide the first recent, comprehensive look at Arizona's charter schools in a new paper released last week, which will be published in a forthcoming issue of the peer - reviewed journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

I published a blog post late last month questioning the numbers in a recent paper on teacher shortages from the Learning Policy Institute (LPI).

Last week we released the first in a series of papers looking at important progress afoot in the state of New Hampshire: «From policy to practice: How competency - based education is evolving in New Hampshire.»

A policy paper from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst released late last week suggests lawmakers consider curtailing the accreditation of teacher training programs by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

The principal evaluation policy paper is the third policy report E4E members have published in the last year.

Over the last two years, E4E - Chicago members authored two policy papers after reviewing best practices, conducting local research and gathering feedback.

The proposal was included in the last government's «Educational excellence everywhere» white paper, and was one of the policies to survive the demise of the subsequent education for all bill.

LAO Suggests Curtailing Accreditation of Teacher Prep Programs by CTC A policy paper from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst released late last week suggests lawmakers consider curtailing the accreditation of teacher training programs by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

(This policy was included in the government's last white paper, and is covered in more detail here).

Last week I presented our new paper, Friends without Benefits: How States Systematically Shortchange Teachers» Retirement and Threaten Their Retirement Security, at the 39th annual conference of the Association of Education Finance and Policy (AEFP).

Last week we presented our new paper, Friends without Benefits: How States Systematically Shortchange Teachers» Retirement and Threaten Their Retirement Security, at the 39th annual conference of the Association of Education Finance and Policy (AEFP).

Ariely recently co-authored a National Academies paper that concluded the last decade of high - stakes testing policies led to very little learning.

Last year, GCI drew attention to the approximately $ 70 million to $ 80 million annual loss in tax revenue resulting from dramatic reductions in DOR staff as discussed in the policy paper Enhanced Revenue Enforcement Creates Fairness, Raises Millions in Revenue, authored by former Arizona DoR Director Elliott Hibbs for the Grand Canyon Institute.

This of course hasn't gone unnoticed by John Taylor, who has written a number of papers over the last year showing empirically that the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy during this period was an important catalyst of the housing bubble and therefore influential in the current problems the economy is experiencing.

The director of the Centre for Policy Studies is Ruth Lea, who has a weekly column in «The Daily Telegraph» (the sister paper of «The Sunday Telegraph»), which she has used no fewer than nine times in the last six months to present her own novel views on climate research and accuse climate researchers of all sorts of misdemeanours, including Lysenkoism.

The last few days have seen frenzied volleys in the fight over climate science and policy, beginning with a 16 - author op - ed article in The Wall Street Journal on Friday and, most recently, with a 39 - author rebuttal published today in the paper.

The European Commission has published its «Reflection paper on the future of EU finances» on 28 June, the last of five policy papers within the so called «White paper process on the future of Europe».

After promising to review one last policy paper thrust upon her by a man in the crowd, a chauffeur drove her away.

In a paper last year, Professor Robert Pindyck from the Massachusetts Institute Technology concluded the so - called integrated assessment models used to combine climate science with economics have «crucial flaws that make them close to useless as tools for policy analysis».

SPPI was founded in mid-2007 with a strong focus on global warming skepticism, and draws heavily on papers published by climate change science denier Christopher Monckton who was the editor of the SPPI's «Monthly CO2 Report,» (last published in January of 2011) has had many of his papers published with SPPI, and is also listed as the group's «Chief Policy Advisor.»

Dr. von Storch, who was not involved in overseeing the paper, resigned last week, saying he disagreed with the peer - review policies.

Written by other authors of the last IPCC report, led by Navroz Dubash of the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, the paper suggests that what is needed are more and earlier discussions between scientists and policymakers in development of future reports.

Last year the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), itself, published its own report citing a «drastic rise in patent litigation» that also referenced a USPTO working paper ominously revealing that «economists, legal scholars and policy makers are concerned about the impact of patent litigation on the rate and direction of US innovation and on the functioning of the US intellectual property system.»

It was intended that the Government would issue an Immigration White Paper last summer, which would set out its proposals for post-Brexit immigration and would include key details of the new immigration policy.

In my last post I discussed the different options for reforming investor - state dispute settlement put forward in a recent UNCTAD policy paper and argued that enacting institutional reforms without addressing substantive law is unlikely to fully address investment law's legitimacy problems.

The Coalition last week released its Policy Discussion Paper on Gambling Reform, rejecting the government's mandatory pre-commitment scheme on poker machines as a measure to reduce problem gambling.

As mentioned in Croakey last week, Dr Lesley M Russell, Adjunct Assoc Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy University of Sydney, has trawled through hundreds of pages of Budget papers and scoured the balance sheets to extract and analyse the relevant data.

«Expectations and investments are soaring now as never before in the nation's history,» Sharon Kagan, a professor of early childhood policy at Teachers College at Columbia University, said in a paper she wrote last year and presented at a conference last month.

Last month, OREA released its first white paper — Better Enforcement and a Regulator That Works — that includes a series of bold policy proposals suggested by the REBBA Review Task Force.