Sentences with phrase «sound policy choices»

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It sounds simplistic, but say you had the choice between a 20 - year term policy that cost $ 200 per year term and a $ 1,000 per year whole policy.

Instead, we're confronted with arguments framed as a hard, false choice between sound economic policies and social programs, between fiscal realities and compassionate acts.

The formulas are by now well known: In an age of sound bites and spin doctors, we are unable to make real choices between policy alternatives.

They rightly talk about reconnecting with voters, but when they also talk about the need for party unity this sounds like continuity and an unwillingness to make hard policy choices.

«Our goal has always been to constructively work with the speaker to pass the Right to Know Act — she has a clear choice: support sound policy that a majority of her members, 18 families of New Yorkers killed by the NYPD and hundreds of community groups from across the city endorse, or chart a path that is increasingly antithetical to democracy and allows police abuses to continue.»

To illustrate how substantive policy choices underlie technocratic - sounding budgetary decisions, consider, for example, a decision to cut back on NIH training grants, making them available only in fields with a shortage of researchers.433 This approach may seem like a neutral way to decide how to allocate a limited sum of money.

The Lawsuit Obama's new policy quickly provoked a lawsuit, led by Nightlight Christian Adoptions and two adult - stem - cell researchers, Dr. James L. Sherley (a former MIT researcher who notoriously went on a hunger strike after being denied tenure) and Dr. Theresa Deisher (president and founder of Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute).

Although New Hampshire's choice in policy may sound like a discouragement to many hopeful teachers - to - be, the unfortunate reality is that these alternative routes are just that: alternative.

Nationwide, AFC promotes sound, sustainable school choice policies that empower parents to choose the school best suited to their child's needs.

If we don't have a policy against reviewing self - published books (many reviewers — if not most — have such a policy, simply to avoid having to deal with unprofessional authors), we might have a choice between two self - published books that sound good.

It sounds simplistic, but say you had the choice between a 20 - year term policy that cost $ 200 per year term and a $ 1,000 per year whole policy.

that there are sound policy arguments against the Texas Legislature's choice does not render that choice an unconstitutional one.

It sounds simplistic, but say you had the choice between a 20 - year term policy that cost $ 200 per year term and a $ 1,000 per year whole policy.

Perhaps, a choice is made because an agent selling a policy sounds credible or because a provider's website is too attractive to ignore.

Ryan discusses the death of Osama Bin Laden; Ryan reviews the economic news of the week; Ryan notices the correlation between increased home sales and interest rate drops; Louis notes we can't expect the housing market to be supported by further decreases in rates as they are already near historic lows; Ryan explains that interest rates change once every four hours; Ryan notes the difference between getting a quote and being locked in to an interest rate; Ryan advises the importance of keeping in touch with your mortgage lender; Louis notes that interest rates change a lot faster than home prices; Ryan notes that the consumer confidence was up, Ryan and Louis discuss the Fed's decision to keep interest rates where they are and to continue the $ 600 billion QE2 program; Ryan and Louis discuss the Fed's view that inflation is nascent; Louis notes that not only does the Fed not see inflation that exists but disclaims any responsibility for it; Louis asserts that there is a correlation between oil prices and Fed policy; Louis discusses Ben Bernanke's assertion that the Fed can't control oil prices but that they somehow can control the impact of higher oil prices on the rest of the economy; Louis also remarks on Bernanke's view of the dollar - the claim that a strong dollar can be achieved through the Fed's current policy as it is their belief that they are creating a sound economy and therefore a sound dollar; Louis notes the irony of the Fed chastising Congress» spendthrift ways — if the Fed did not monetize the debt, Congress could» nt spend; Louis noted that as Bernanke spoke the prices of gold and silver rose as it seemed that the Fed has no interest in cutting off the easy money; the current Fed policy will keep interest rates low; Ryan notes that the Fed knows that they can't let interest rates rise because of the housing mess; Louis notes that the Fed has a Hobson's Choice - either keep rates low or let interest rates rise and cut off the recovery.