Sentences with phrase «poor quality leader»

But Gordon should have done this knowing of the backlash, now it looks more and more like this poor quality leader has done a Uturn, does nobody in Downing street know about getting it in first.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

For example, that could mean investing in a company that's actively working to reduce its carbon footprint through its supply chain operations, or a company that is a leader in promoting gender diversity through maternity and paternity policies, or one that is improving access to high quality healthcare for poor people globally.

I expected poor quality documents like this in the Blair / Brown / Miliband years but hoped for something better under a leader who promised to put members in charge of party policy.

The Council altered de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability proposals to make them include more affordable housing and more parking in areas with poor access to public transportation, but these changes was not enough to satisfy some Bronx leaders.

It added governors do not hold leaders to account for poor quality of education provided.

«The idea is to give more countries, rich and poor, access to comparing themselves against the world's education leaders, to discover their relative strengths and weaknesses, and to see what the long - term economic gains from improved quality in schooling could be for them,» said OECD education director Andreas Schleicher.

As Dropout Nation has noted ad nauseam, few of the accountability systems allowed to replace No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provision are worthy of the name; far too many of them, including the A-to-F grading systems put into place by such states as New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality education.

What's more, Pathak and his colleagues worry that, absent sufficient information for parents, choice - based education systems «penalize schools that enroll low - achievers rather than schools that offer poor instruction» and give school leaders a perverse incentive to focus on «making sure your school's got the best kids» rather than improving school quality.

Regardless of the quality and tenure of the principal, low - achieving schools and schools with high proportions of poor and minority students face increased barriers to attracting, hiring, and retaining quality leaders.

At the same time, a strong emphasis on cleaner energy technologies, in large part to address poor air quality, is catapulting China to a position as a world leader in wind, solar, nuclear and electric vehicles and the source of more than a quarter of projected growth in natural gas consumption.

However, often the very qualities that make a person a great lawyer make them a poor leader.

But its relatively poor camera quality and lackluster specs compared to current market leaders are big strikes.

The unhappy title for the world leader in these stakes goes to Sierra Leone with an under five mortality rate in 2000 of 316 per 1,000 live births; and an infant mortality rate of 181 per 1,000 live births.101 It is not difficult to see how poverty of material conditions, poor sanitation and gross malnutrition, added to lack of quality medical care, can be responsible for such tragically foreshortened lives - a life expectancy at birth of 34 years.