Sentences with phrase «real wonk»

If you're a real wonk, you can find a list of all activity codes and technical definitions on the NIH Web site (Acrobat Reader required):

If you're a real wonk, you can find a list of all activity codes and technical definitions on the NIH Web site (PDF document).

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The wonks on Twitter who would engage in a real - time debate over financial markets and the economy.

My father, citing an argument raised by wonk - in - arms, the Rockefeller Institute's Bob Ward, said the real question is whether extender bills are true budget bills, which the Legislature clearly does NOT have the power to amend, or something else entirely.

DM and I had a row drafting TB's Times article on public services, which I felt had to have real cutting edge and DM kept defaulting to these policy wonk words that I found impenetrable.

At least a few people think a lasting boost in the regular appropriations for some science agencies is a real possibility, according to a well - informed Washington observer we'll call Polly C. Wonk.

So hacktivist groups are now building tools that buttress their efforts with real ballot - box power, helping people deploy their votes effectively and liberating policymaking from the wonks and lobbyists (see «Better than a ballot box: Could digital democracy win your vote?

Veep works because it is a compact ensemble comedy, filled with the sort of overheard details and wonk verisimilitude that has a way of making the show seem just real enough, even when it has played coy about whether its lead character is a Democrat or a Republican.

TIME.com — The source list in Steven Brill's Class Warfare may read like the Who's Who of modern education reform, but the chapters that precede it often feel more like The Real Housewives of Policy Wonk County.

We need to get rid of 50 % of you in the next two years and replace you with practicing lawyers, ex-judges, regulators and policy wonks who will work for half as much money and have real skills to pass on.»

From the perspective of a communications wonk and a real estate customer, therefore, seriously, don't.