Sentences with phrase «think tank gave»

The Cato Institute recently issued fiscal policy report cards to America's governors, and the libertarian think tank gave Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo a B for his «impressive tax cutting.»

The British Future think tank gave a generally positive response to the speech.

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«They'd walk away from a deal before they would actually give up supply management at this point,» said Kevin Carmichael, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, a think tank in Waterloo, Ontario.

«That was honest - to - God college beer money that I gave up to be associated with Cato, so you know about my commitment to the cause of liberty,» he said during a forum at the think tank last year.

Think tanks and industry watchdogs Rogue players can give your industry a bad reputation, but formal definitions, guidelines, and regulations improve credibility and direct negative sentiment toward individual companies instead of the industry as a whole.

«There was a feeling that it was not the right time to do this, given what Trump was doing essentially in the opposite direction, that it would be sending mixed signals,» said William Reinsch, a foreign trade expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank.

No healthy think tanks where we can all give our thoughts and ideas and agree that God is a mystery and we don't know it all.

You think they want bunch of posts about how the commander in chimp let four U.S. Ambassadors die, or how he tanked our economy, or how he's giving a free pass to n1gger kids to misbehave in schools across the country?

I think its a fair request given that we're trying to compete in the East right now while you're tanking.

Plus he's a tank, personally I think we need to sign a prop or a second row (rugby) just to give our team some weight...

Let me give you an example: if it turns out that Ryan Kalil has nothing in his tank after all OR Matt Kalil is the guy that the Vikings thought he was when they let him walk OR Taylor Moton isn't ready to make the jump from small college OT to NFL OG, please realize that Isaiah Wynn can play every position on the offensive line.

In the April edition of the CIES Football Observatory Monthly Report on «Spotting future stars», the think - tank's metric ranked Origi as the most experienced young forward in the big - five leagues, giving him a score of 75.4.

That they didn't play like this in the first leg is, I think, because they treated us like we had treated Ostersunds: a bit of a foregone conclusion, given how we've tanked domestically.

And influential think - tanks such as the Resolution Foundation and the Social Market Foundation are now giving credence to the idea that the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party may have more credible post-2015 deficit reduction strategies than a majority Conservative government.

Ron Deutsch, with the Fiscal Policy Institute, a think tank partly funded by unions, says putting off a decision on the half a billion dollars in projects is the right thing to do, given all the questions swirling around the Buffalo Billion right now.

They over saw «a house of experts», where business chums, think tank experts, ex-MPs and scientists were given peerages.

So a new report from the think - tank Civitas, launched by veteran Labour MP Frank Field and parliamentary researcher Andrew Forsey, should be given credit for positive thinking.

That's according to the Tax Foundation, once derided as a «right - wing think tank» by a top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which gave credit to changes made in the 2014 - 15 budget to the state's corporate tax structure that reduce the rate and simplified the code.

That angers Ron Deutsch, of Fiscal Policy Institute, a union backed think tank that backs Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to give a property tax break for middle and working class homeowners who pay too much of their income on taxes.

Paul Johnson, of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank, told the Financial Times it was «quite an achievement given how poor economic growth has been».

We considered the geography of university academics invited to give evidence — bearing in mind that unlike other «expert» organisations like think - tanks, universities are distributed evenly across the country.

Britain can make a «unilateral declaration of independence» from the EU by giving British courts legal primacy, an influential think tank has suggested.

Britain can make a «unilateral declaration of independence» from the EU by giving British courts legal primacy, an influential think tank suggests

That angers Ron Deutsch, of Fiscal Policy Institute, a union backed think tank that backs Governor Cuomo's plan to give a property tax break for middle and working class homeowners who pay too much of their income on taxes.

13.30 Liam Byrne gives a lecture to the Demos think tank marking the 70th anniversary of the publication of the Beveridge report

Yet, if anything, the indispensability of this text lies in the fact that five years after the first coalition government was formed since the Second World War, a wide variety of esteemed experts from Whitehall, Parliament, academia and think tanks have given their professional and intriguing assessments of the «Coalition effect» across all major policy areas.

However, research from the Centre for European Reform (CER) think - tank on the potential consequences of Brexit shows that trade between the EU countries and the UK is 55 % higher than would otherwise be expected, indicating that membership gives Britain significant trading advantages.

[39] The award was given after the British vote to leave the European Union and the rise to power of Donald Trump in the United States, both of which the think tank strongly supported.

The newly - appointed shadow business secretary Ken Clarke gave his first speech in his new post today, to a conference hosted by the think - tank, Reform, at the London Stock Exchange.

We give special attention to perhaps today's poster child of the climate denial machine's free market think tanks, the Heartland Institute, which is about to launch a new version of its «NIPCC» or «climate change reconsidered» report next week in Chicago.

Given the substantial increase in development activity and clinical success of other immunotherapy agents that followed, and in an effort to continue to provide maximum value to the rapidly evolving field, the direction of the CIC was re-set to become a «think tank» that would convene and tackle topics of importance to the continued development of cancer immunotherapies.

I don't think the white tank underneath the blazer gave the look any justice.

My days of wearing shorts and a tank are outnumbered, but I thought I'd give it one more go around while the weather still permits (helloooo high of 80's this weekend!).

I thought it seemed pretty useless to layer a sleeveless top over another sleeveless top, but when I paired it with the tank top and skirt I saw it gave me more coverage without adding a heavy layer.

But before you donate it to a thrift store, think about giving it one more fashion spin with the help of a graphic tank and some fringe cowboy boots.

The tank straps are nice and short meaning not too much cleavage is revealed; I think it would just be too much given the body - hugging fit.

Over the last several years, I've spent a fair amount of time defending the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in my role as a senior fellow with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education - policy think tank in Washington, D.C.. Now, given president - elect Trump's pledge to «end Common Core,» which he terms «a disaster,» I expect many more opportunities to defend high standards, at least for the foreseeable future.

On Thursday, Jeb Bush will give a speech in Washington, D.C. at his think tank's annual conference.

In the 1980s, the maximum Pell Grant — the money the federal money gives to low - income students to attend college — covered more than half the cost of a four - year public school, according to The Institute for College Access and Success, a think tank focused on college affordability.

Given this kind of organized opposition to testing, one would expect Brookings, the very definition of a middle - of - the - road think tank, to produce a consensus document that balances the arguments carefully, saying «yes, testing has some value,» but «no, there are a lot of problems with it.»

Cami Anderson, who runs the largest school district in New Jersey, came to Washington on Thursday to give a quiet talk about education at a think tank.

The think tank estimates giving every seven to 11 - year - old a free lunch would cost upwards of # 950 million a year, and that other policies, such as free breakfast clubs «might be a cheaper and more effective way to improve both education and health outcomes».

A second system — the first statewide voucher system in the country, which was struck down by the Florida Supreme Court in 2006 — gave vouchers to public school students in a «failing school» to move to a public or private school of their choice, according to the conservative think tank, Washington Policy Center.

The award is given to the «think tank» that has «most egregiously undermined informed discussion and sound policy making» by producing «the most compellingly lousy educational research for the past year.»

Analysis by the conservative think - tank found giving schools a 10 % increase, roughly $ 700 to $ 800 in per - pupil funding, only yielded a significant increase in one of 28 academic areas observed.

Not only is it spending more than $ 75 million a year on advocacy, but it is also simultaneously bankrolling the development of policy by funding academic researchers and district data specialists and giving money to think tanks and media organizations that examine their handiwork.

Conservative funders like the Walton Foundation also give generously to charter schools and liberal think tanks such as the Center for American Progress.

«In addition to giving grants to right - leaning think tanks like the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, the Walton foundation hired an education program officer who had worked at the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative business - backed group.»

Jonathan Simons, head of education at the right - leaning think tank Policy Exchange, said: «Given all the candidates have mentioned the importance of social mobility and improving life outcomes, and given Gove's previous role, it is likely to give education a welcome prominence in this campaign.&rGiven all the candidates have mentioned the importance of social mobility and improving life outcomes, and given Gove's previous role, it is likely to give education a welcome prominence in this campaign.&rgiven Gove's previous role, it is likely to give education a welcome prominence in this campaign.»

But as well as giving excellent thumbnail portraits of the Koch and Mellon families, this book goes on to explain the tax - efficient way very wealthy individuals have funnelled money through charitable foundations into political think tanks and astro - turfed grass - roots movements.