Sentences with phrase «serving at consensus»

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Alan Greenspan was known as adept at gaining consensus among Fed board members on policy issues and for serving during one of the most severe economic crises of the late 20th century, the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1987.

For much of my career I pretty much accepted the consensus, but as I started to think more seriously about the components of the balance of payments, I realized that when Keynes at Bretton Woods argued for a hybrid currency (which he called «bancor») to serve as the global reserve currency, and not the US dollar, he wasn't only expressing his dismay about the transfer of international status from Britain to the US.

However, I had a meeting last week and served coffee alongside these beauties and the consensus was unanimous after that day ---- I must at least mention something about this little number.

Her experience is varied and includes developing and implementing training programs for dog owners and veterinary professionals; working as a research assistant on several canine behavioral genetics projects at the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; serving as editor for a scientific working group tasked with establishing consensus - based best practices for the use of canine / handler detection teams and setting standards for their certification; serving as the first editorial assistant for the Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research; co-authoring more than 10 peer - reviewed publications and owning and operating a home - based editing business.

But as far as the computer models go, there isn't a useful consensus at the level of detail relevant to assessing human influences,» explained Steven Koonin, who served as «undersecretary for science» in the Energy Department during Obama's first term and now works as director of New York University's Center for Urban Science.

The truth about Judith Curry, as I see it, is that she has a strong attraction for political dialogue, and refuses to see that the public debate over climate is fundamentally at odds with good science, as is the IPCC - sponsored «consensus» of climate alarmism, or in her case, of climate political - worryism (she seems deeply attached to helping bring about «reasonable» and «responsible» climate policies — whereas my view is that any and all such climate policies, now, are necessarily based upon incompetent, false science, are entirely the wrong thing to try to impose upon the people of the world, and need to be summarily thrown out, before one can even begin to have a dispassionate, competent scientific dialogue — as opposed to the political debate now being served up — on the state of climate science.).

I don't think there's any consensus about where things should be going (except that the billable hour system doesn't serve clients or associates particularly well) but the fact that a firm is asking the question and willing to look at other options should be seen as encouraging.