Sentences with phrase «think tank meeting»

Each topic is determined through a closed think tank meeting with a small group of artists, curators, and historians.

At a think tank meeting about autism several years ago, molecular geneticist Simon Gregory spoke with mainstream and nonconventional doctors about oxytocin, the so - called «love hormone» that some doctors were using to treat symptoms of social disconnection in children with autism.

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Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank, said this meeting is more serious than in past years largely because of the fallout from Brexit, which is raising concerns about Ireland's economic prospects and the future for Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.

On Tuesday, Tillerson said «Let's just meet,» in a speech to Washington's Atlantic Council think - tank.

Also in Seattle, former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's think tank organized a Wednesday meeting between 30 CEO that include those from China's Big Three Tech names — Baidu, Alibaba (BABA), and Tencent — as well as Jeff Bezos of Amazon (AMZN), Tim Cook at Apple, and John Chambers of Cisco.

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, will also hold meetings about the issue with Facebook executives, Axios reports.

They time it so they can publish the results before the regularly scheduled meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee (the Fed's «think tank»).

Conservative public policy think tank the Heritage Foundation will meet with Facebook executives.

Facebook invited a number of conservative think tanks and free market groups to a secretive meeting in Washington, D.C., where they were forced to sign strict legal agreements to prevent discussion of the event.

As I am mostly working online right now, and also have attention from a leading think - tank in the UK, I am failing miserably on «my» goals, but it is important to meet the person with his needs rather than meeting the need but not the person, and so thank you very much for the necessary nudge.

The SOAAN Steering Group concluded at its meeting on 24 November 2015 that focusing its think - tank efforts on the Organic 3.0 feature of True Value and Fair Pricing should be its next priority.

I found myself thinking of the summer outdoor meets — the sun on the hard blue water with schlock music over the loudspeaker and the girl swimmers, whom we saw only at those kinds of meets, with their strong tanned necks and their nipples showing under their nylon tank suits.

The University of California at San Francisco hosted the initial planning meeting and Airlie Center in Warrenton, VA, a well - known venue for think tanks, was the site of the 2011 & 2013 Summits.

He told the meeting, organised by the Centre on International Cooperation think tank, that the focus should shift from «hard» military and economic means to values and ideas, or so - called «soft» power.

It's a concern highlighted by the three page statement put out after the centre - left Paris meeting on the 17th March by the think tanks who organised the event.

Such decisions are usually made gradually, by proposals from one side which are discussed in think - tanks and at unofficial meetings and official NATO summits, so probably it is difficult to trace down all the history of the decision.

http://bracknellblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/tweet-highlight-sackchrisgrayling.htm Firstly this may of been recorded in secret but Chris Grayling was at a public meeting of a leading centre - right think tank.

Waged in newspaper columns, private meetings with the Chancellor, blog entries, questions to the Prime Minister and think - tank reports, the struggle over taxing capital gains may be a pointer to the future.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said in an interview that the Russian ambassador who met with Trump campaign officials also met with «people working in think tanks advising Hillary or advising people working for Hillary.»

The data would be part of an annual update to the fiscally conservative think tank's government spending database, and the lawsuit alleges that the M.T.A. has consistently failed to meet deadlines and provide information in previous years, as well.

Weekly parliamentary meetings were held around a dining - table and were likened by one present to «a pleasant, often amusing think - tank session.»

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

The NPP flagbearer made this known in separate meetings in Washington DC, with the Centre for Global Development and the National Endowment for Democracy, all leading think tanks, on Wednesday.

They first met at least a decade ago when FM was working at a centre left think tank and their children go to the same school in South - West London.

Their Veloc - Immune mouse model was an idea which evolved during a «think tank» meeting.

Next week, the so - called Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice — the think - tank for the Convention on Biological Diversity — meets in Paris.

Athena Ballesteros, who leads work on climate finance for the World Resources Institute think tank, said, «If this meeting will help contribute to the goal of coordinating countries plans and actions to mobilize the $ 100 billion pledge, that would be most welcome, and part of the conversation is to find innovative sources of finance that would complement the scarce public resources being made available.»

The Consortium expects to serve as a disability employment think tank, as well as a demonstration, evaluation, and policy advisor hub, housing best practice data uniquely suited to meet the needs of people with disabilities in the midwestern states.

Many of the 100 high schools identified by Newsweek magazine as the best in the United States do not meet «a reasonable definition of a good high school,» concludes a report from Education Sector, a Washington - based think tank.

Teachers Learn Together in the Think Tank Last year we implemented «Think Tanks,» voluntary staff meetings where we all become better teachers by learning from the teachers next door to us.

Many of the proposed changes were discussed at a recent meeting here sponsored by the Center on Education Policy, a Washington think tank.

Sitting where I do, in a progressive think tank, my perceptions closely track those of the Education Next survey and the authors» conclusions (see «Meeting of the Minds,» features, Winter 2011).

«Pessimists might feel that school - level reform is difficult if not impossible, because several teams did not meet the NASDC goals,» the report by the Santa Monica, Calif. - based think tank says.

Kentucky has partially met that goal, a report from a state think tank says, but it still needs to invest in significant changes to put better teachers in the classroom.

Supporters, including a group of black Louisville pastors and the Bluegrass Institute, a conservative education think tank, say they would be more free to adopt innovative approaches that could help students, especially in urban areas where some schools repeatedly fail to meet goals.

These models of new school have serious failures, with a recent report by the think tank IPPR concluding that they are «failing to meet their own stated aims».

Her enthusiastic approach extends to her research — she has traveled all over the world to meet scientists, environmentalists, urban designers, inventors, and those on the cutting edge of technological development, accompanying an aqua farmer to check on his lateral kelp beds in the ocean, and others into their labs, design studios and think tanks.

Specifically, the website informs relevant stakeholders about the outcome of CALLISTO conferences and expert group meetings, it promotes awareness on objectives and activities of the think tank in order to increase general public awareness of the impact of companion animal zoonoses, and to obtain the support of political stakeholders in combating zoonosis outbreaks and diffusion at a European and National level.

At the same moment your hamster spies a tiny gap where the wire mesh lid meets the aquarium tank, or an almost imperceptibly small opening where a tube connects to a module, thinks there must be something good there, and immediately sets course for it.

Ideal for small meetings and executive think tanks, the resort's meeting rooms boats superior facilities and natural lightings.

Ahead of the G - 20 meeting in Australia later this week, a new report by an Australian think - tank convincingly punctures coal industry claims that coal is an essential part of the solution to lack of access...

This was a key recommendation of a paper written for the summit meeting by experts from a group of energy and climate think tanks.

«It's a bit of a flashpoint,» Camilla Born, of the E3G climate think - tank, said of the U.S. meeting.

But the German self - review published on Tuesday on the OECD website was met with unanimous criticism by think - tanks and expert NGOs working on the issue: «Terrible», «disastrous» and «seriously damaging to the G20 review process» were the first responses by Oil Change International and ODI.

Two of Prime Minister Theresa May's special advisers met with a libertarian US think tank founded by climate science denial funder Charles Koch last winter, but Number 10 Downing Street will not say why.

Mark Campanale of the Carbon Tracker think tank told a story this year of a meeting with a group of fund managers in California, where he struggled to convince them of the climate - related risks in their portfolio even as they looked out the window of the skyscraper they were in and watched fires burn on the horizon.

Either by design (the researchers found conservative think tanks prefer «global warming» to «climate change») or because of how our minds processes the terms («global warming» seems to lead to an expectation of noticeably higher temperatures here and now), the concept of «global warming» meets significantly more resistance than «climate change.»

On March 8 - 10, more than 500 of those scientists who dispute the vast global warming hoax will meet in New York for a second international conference on climate change sponsored by The Heartland Institute, a non-profit, free market think tank.

Canada must slash oil and gas emissions to meet 2020 target: report WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters Point Carbon)-- Canada should reduce the emissions it projects for its lucrative oil and gas sector 42 percent by 2020 in order to meet its global pledge to slash its emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels, a think tank said on Tuesday... http://www.pointcarbon.com/news/1.2257967?&ref=searchlist

Today, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a prominent conservative think tank, hosted a secret, four - and - a-half hour meeting of pols, wonks, and activists, including several self - identified «progressives,» to develop a PR / legislative strategy to promote and enact a carbon tax.