Sentences with phrase «public fears»
Though features of the problem are larger they are yet still familiar from experience, including the exploitation of public fears of costs.
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To counter the impact of irrational public fears, he advocates delegation of authority to politically insulated experts using economic cost - benefit analysis.
The goal is to provide information and resources to aid public fears and opinions by showing a positive storyline.
He examines Japan's difficult and costly cleanup, the resulting pulse of public fears about radiation there (and elsewhere) and corporate and government decisions that resulted in the construction of such a vulnerable power plant complex in a tsunami zone.
Secondly, as PrQ says, «the way to dispel public fear of a new tax is to bring it in».
The government is in danger of acting uncritically on public fears about law and order, a leading criminologist has warned.
Their party leader, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, earlier sought to calm public fears over deep spending cuts but admitted the coalition was likely to suffer a backlash.
In 2008's The Dark Knight especially, Nolan toyed with the notion of Gotham City as a locus for international economic corruption by plugging public fears around the time of the 2007 - 2008 financial crisis into a subplot involving a self - preserving accountant who flees to Hong Kong with a small fortune.
Aaron Blake of the Washington Post contends that this means «immigration reform» is winning.This seems a strange comment, because public fears about our defunct immigration system don't guarantee better policy.
The study is expected to help reduce litigation in the real estate industry centering on alleged hazards associated with high electromagnetic field (EMF) levels near houses and to calm public fears about EMF health hazards.
However, despite public fear and criticism of Steinbrenner's controversial decisions, eventually he led the team to an amazing comeback, with six World Series entries between 1996 and 2003, and a record as one of the most profitable teams in Major League Baseball.
The EU has now re-nationalised the rights of member states to determine whether to grow GM crops, while retaining the responsibility for determining crop safety, and this should go someway to allaying public fears about GM.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg today (April 4) outlined the company's latest moves to address public fears over the extent of data scraping in a rare...
Such sensationalized reporting targeted toward ginning up public fear gives peppers a bad rap that they don't deserve.»
«The reforms have created widespread public fear about the scale and impact of public spending cuts and the privatisation of public services.
Statue destruction, hence, is a part of disgusting anti-social behavior of Ukrainian authorities raising public fear and unrest.
It's sad, since they're repeating long - failed attempts to arouse public fear of climate change by statements beyond those of the climate science consensus — and often contradictory to it.
In fact, climate science will probably remain easily misconstrued by alarmists of all stripes — both environmentalists eager to stoke public fears and antiregulatory activists and politicians fearful of any impediment to unbridled enterprise.
After the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island — a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania — stricter regulations driven by public fear prompted TVA to shut down its two nuclear reactors.
All seem to suggest that a new study, released yesterday, has found that nanoscale materials, used in everything from medical imaging to cancer treatment, can damage genetic material in our bodies, feeding public fears.
Far too many that call themselves scientists and experts are actually advocates connected to not - for - profit organizations that fund themselves through public fears that iconic species such as the polar bear will soon go extinct.
Lots of companies are already caving in to irrational public fears regarding GMOs.
While Schakowsky's bill was welcomed by school cafeteria managers and food - safety advocates, industry officials said the dissemination of safety records could stoke unnecessary public fears and prove difficult for cafeteria managers to interpret.
Yes, Trump's offer was in some ways similar, though he didn't talk much about the sanctions - US - Russian trade is miniscule compared to EU - Russian trade - and concentrated on what the US public fears post 9/11 - international terrorism.
The home secretary said he hoped to find a middle way between heightening awareness of the terrorist risk and causing exaggerated public fears about the nature of the threat.
Problem number two is the omni - shambles that undermines the general claim of competence: «If I can't trust the government to manage public fears over petrol shortages, why should I trust it on anything else?»
Public fears projects will stall after President's tour A lot of preparations are underway as the region as the President continues his tour of the region Tuesday.
This suggests the budget, which left little impression at Westminster, has distilled public fears about the economic situation, with Labour taking the blame.»
An Indian clinic's claim of totally untreatable TB ignited public fears, but experts say poor disease management is the real threat
In less than a generation, rates of several common crimes that inspire public fear — homicide, robbery and burglary — dropped by more than 80 percent.
Firstly, for many years they did not make public fears about the potential danger BSE posed to human health — concerns of an economically damaging public over-reaction took precedence.
At the same time, the new outbreak puts public fears of bioterrorism and ballooning biodefense budgets into perspective by reasserting the impact of naturally occurring diseases, says Marjorie Pollack, who is monitoring the outbreak for ProMED, a worldwide electronic reporting system.
And the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) workers on the ground are keeping a wary eye out for those who might try to exploit public fears.
This leads the mayor (the voice of Kunichi Nomura) to whip up public fear so that he can deport all the city's dogs to a garbage dump, where they are forced to live on food scraps.
While the likes of Midnight Cowboy and Dog Day Afternoon focused on the city's seedy underbelly, The French Connection and Serpico contributed to the mounting public fears around police corruption and violence.
As public fears about terrorism hit their highest levels in a decade and anti-Islamic sentiment surges, schools should take extra steps to ensure that Muslim, immigrant, and refugee students feel safe and free from discrimination, the U.S. Department of Education said last week.
One type of dog or another tends to be perceived as dangerous at any given time; Dobermans, rottweilers, and German shepherds have all gone through periods when they were seen as the ultimate «tough» dog, and that reputation heightened public fears.
It was shot down, shamefully, as Republican politicians and the tabloids milked public fears of art and susceptibility to blind patriotism.
«I recognize the increased public fear about nuclear power,» IEA chief Nobuo Tanaka, who is Japanese, told a news conference in Oslo.
· Vietnam had worked patiently for 20 years to build public support for a major nuclear build - out before abruptly scrapping those plans in response to rising public fears and costs last year.
In contrast to the scientific rigor of the epidemiologists, Alan Pounds and the journal Nature actively campaigned to down - play the disease hypothesis and blame CO2 - caused warming to incite public fears of climate change.
e.g., True / False: «If, through misunderstanding of the underlying science and through misguided public fear and hysteria, mankind significantly rations and restricts the use of hydrocarbons, the worldwide increase in prosperity will stop.
Yet public fear led Japan's prime minister to intervene unnecessarily, prompting a panicked and needlessly large evacuation, which led to the deaths of over 1,500 people.
John Quiggin said «the way to dispell public fear of a new tax is to bring it in».
An Oklahoma appellate court has considered when a jury can hear evidence on how public fears of electromagnetic fields («EMFs») effect the fair market value of property, even when the fears are not based on an objective standard.
* since the price of carbon is initially capped under the CPRS, it's just like a carbon tax in the short run * the way to dispel public fear of a new tax is to bring it in.