Sentences with phrase «think tanks for»

This left 26 think tanks for analysis: 12 categorized as conservative (e.g., The Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution) and 14 categorized as liberal (e.g., Center for American Progress, Brookings Institution).

Furthermore, as Brooks says, his serious education reformers rely on partisan think tanks for validation, as clowns would (clowns upon clowns, of course) instead of on professional organizations (the AAUP comes to mind) where real understanding of needs and possibilities lie:

Actually, there is a remarkable amount of latitude at think tanks for people to say what they really think.

A just - launched project will review education reports released by private think tanks for the quality of their research, methodology, and conclusions, using expert academic reviewers.

Jigsaw was until recently known as Google Ideas, and was rebranded this month to become Alphabet's new think tank for tackling «geopolitical challenges.»

To foster a non-ideological «big tent» party of ideas which serves as a think tank for the solutions to the problems we face.

But without going off and working for a think tank for a fraction of what I earn now... I'd find it very boring, anyway.

In the afternoon I joined a workshop on environmental and climate change policy, which was being run by the Green Alliance think tank for a group of my fellow Conservative candidates.

In 2008, he was appointed a senior associate of The Nuffield Trust, a think tank for research and policy studies in health services.

Her prior experience includes being CEO of the Neuhaus Education Center (a nonprofit think tank for literacy solutions) and deputy superintendent for student achievement and school improvement for the state of Idaho.

... It became the think tank for many of the rightwing neoliberal policies promoted by Clinton.

Ford performance is a think tank for automotive inventiveness.

Quo Vadis has established itself as the most important international game developers» conference in Germany, and is Europe's think tank for the future of the entire industry.

Burns has a particular interest in socially engaged arts practice and past projects commissioned through Fire Station include Troubling Ireland — a think tank for socially engaged artists in collaboration with the Danish curatorial collective Kuratorisk Aktion.

Critical Practices is currently participating in the 2014 Whitney Biennial as a think tank for intellectual participation and critical theory.

Bruguera recently opened the Hannah Arendt International Institute for Artivism, in Havana - a school, exhibition space and think tank for Cuban activist artists.

In 2016, she announced that she would donate the $ 625,000 she won for a MacArthur «Genius» Grant to funding the Racial Imaginary Institute, a think tank for artists and writers who study whiteness.

She founded the art collective and trend forecasting group K - HOLE, and is currently the director of Nemesis, a think tank for cultural insights.

This «think tank for the art world» takes place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona from 22 - 23 January

We are creating a formal executive global think tank for the design engineering and project management in the field.

Formed in the 1970s, the Geneva Association is now the industry's leading global insurance think tank for «strategically important insurance and risk management issues.»

We discussed in this in a previous post («Carbon trading, taxes and putting the cart before the horse «-RRB--- Jiang Kejun of the Energy Resources Institute, a government think tank for the National Development and Reform Commission, says that China would first seek to gain the experience of taxing other resources before taxing carbon emissions, and thus does not think a carbon tax would be implemented for another 4 to 5 years.

Therefore, e.g. the «Baden - Württemberg Climate Protection and Energy Agency» acts as a think tank for technical climate protection issues and promotes awareness for climate change and mitigation strategies.

The proposals also envision member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based think tank for rich - world nations, forming a single carbon market by 2015.

VeraSage Institute is the most revolutionary think tank for professional service firms — we challenge the professions to break free of practice methods that hurt the professions, undermine their purposes, and fail their clients.»

Each practice group is a think tank for current legal issues in the area.

Among professionals, the MRBN functions as a support group and think tank for new projects, and as a facilitator for planning projects that involve the whole state of Maine.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)-- the Paris - based think tank for developed nations — recently projected that the euro zone will contract by 0.1 % in 2012.

The T3 Summit is an invite - only mastermind and think tank for the residential real estate industry's CEOs.

Not exact matches

There is little talk of tax cuts and balanced budgets, items which form the economic lodestar of the Official Opposition; think tanks such as the Fraser Institute, the Macdonald - Laurier Institute, the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council; and almost everyone who writes a column for the Financial Post, including former finance minister Joe Oliver.

Michael Tanner, senior fellow at libertarian think tank The Cato Institute who shared the stage with Faye on Friday, said the U.S. government has nearly 100 programs for combating poverty.

The Eastern State Penitentiary, for instance, «actually has become this hub of academic [activity],» said Lauren - Brooke Eisen, senior counsel in the justice program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a New York think tank promoting criminal justice reform.

Lighthizer, who lacks his boss's need for public attention, appeared at a Washington - based think tank on Sept. 18 to explain at length why the administration is so obsessed with narrowing the trade deficit.

«This is a classic example of union avoidance,» says Mark Price, a labor economist for the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

In 2007, one of the think - tanks responsible for climate science misinformation, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, began reiterating one of the main refuted claims about Carson.

The Milkens Institute, a think tank comprised of economists around the US, recently compiled a report on the best cities for growing old.

Other analysts, such as Larry Downes, project director at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, an economic policy think tank, say both reclassification under Title II and regulating under section 706 represent overreach by the FCC.

But Larry Downes, project director at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy (GCBPP), an economic policy think tank, certainly thinks the case has merit.

There are no easy fixes for Canada's labour problems, with think - tanks and policy wonks suggesting everything from a reduction in EI to a Youth Employment Guarantee.

Confirmation of this state of affairs was recently provided by a research study, Value for Money from Health Insurance Systems in Canada and the OECD (2012 edition), from Vancouver - based think tank the Fraser Institute.

It looked at the New York Times investigation into think tanks courting corporate sponsors and the risk the practice poses for an arguably imperiled expert class.

In March, the think - tank found that Canada was sixth among the nations for economic performance.

Thanks to an ambitious think - tank upstart, the bold billionaire's vision for a Jetson-esque «fifth mode of transport» is inching closer to reality.

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.

Such an option would raise the costs of exporting to the EU for UK firms and it would decrease the access to EU markets for UK companies, a joint research paper from the London School of Economics and the think tank Centre for Economic Performance stated.

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the nonprofit Center for Immigration Studies think tank, told Polis's local paper The Daily Camera that «there is a much stronger case» for Start - up Visas than, say, for expanding guest worker programs or family - based immigration, both of which are included in the larger reform bill.

The Centre for International Governance Innovation think - tank in Waterloo, Ont., recently suggested a list of 10 new Millennium Development Goals to replace the ones that will soon expire.

The National Foundation for American Policy, a nonpartisan think tank, found in March that immigrants had started more than half of the current crop of U.S start - ups whose values topped $ 1 billion.

According to an analysis of 2010 data by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, the price tag was $ 669 million in direct hospital costs for just that year and $ 174 billion in larger societal costs, which includes disability, effects on employment, and other longer - term factors.

«Cambodia is becoming part of an interesting Asian strategy for any of the global multinationals,» said Molavi, also co-director of think tank Emerge85.