Sentences with phrase «wonk who»

Tuesday's vote was a triumph for Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican and self - described policy wonk who put aside his vision for a more comprehensive, cutting - edge — and controversial — approach to overhauling corporate taxes earlier this year.

I'm a rare humanities wonk who likes to play around with numbers (e.g., I'm a sabermetrician), but this is an area where if the actuaries can't figure it out, then more discretion needs to be given to those approving mortgages to guesstimate the likely DTI and probability that someone is headed for forgiveness (or even just remaining on an IBR, frankly).

Thandie Newton plays Condoleezza Rice as a birdlike twit; Jeffrey Wright gives Colin Powell the compromised dignity of a man who realizes — too late — that he has cast his lot with thieves; Richard Dreyfuss» smirking Cheney is a cold hearted schemer who loves only oil; and nerdy Toby Jones enacts Karl Rove as a perverse policy wonk who gets a kick out of his Machiavellian brainstorms.

In short, Walcott is more than an education reformer with soul; he is also a policy wonk who can translate his aims so that parents can embrace them as their own — so that the self - appointed advocates will have to get on board or be left on the sidelines.

solidified his reputation as a whip - smart policy wonk who gets results.

To many observers, he appears to be the same old Gingrich «a pompous policy wonk who will eventually implode, either before or after he becomes the Republican nominee.

The reality is, unless you're an MBA or numbers wonk who actually enjoys crafting complex formulas and building interlinking Excel sheets, financial modeling can be a chore that's boring, painful and hopelessly complex.

I am one of many finance wonks who has studied dividends for years and have come to conclude that dividends are «sticky» because companies that start paying dividends usually continue to do so.

Floyd and Trubisky complaints were generally draft value wonks who don't like trading up in exchange for capital.

For those wonks who sifted through his speeches before he led his Lib Dem party into the coalition in 2010, there was ample evidence that Clegg would prove an amenable ally to a slash - and - burn Conservative government.

We've lined up a team of pollsters, academics, party political people, MPs, columnists and policy wonks who are helping us interpret the results throughout Thursday night and all through Friday.

They will have to justify, at least within the small community of wonks who follow this stuff, what other fundamental elements in their forecast out to 2020 were changed to match the 2020 number.

Some are darlings, some just honest people doing an honest job, and some are political wonks who «administer» science in their field.

We need to get rid of 50 % of you in the next two years and replace you with practicing lawyers, ex-judges, regulators and policy wonks who will work for half as much money and have real skills to pass on.»

Not exact matches

The wonks on Twitter who would engage in a real - time debate over financial markets and the economy.

In a city full of policy wonks and experts, we need to respect how Kony 2012 humanized the issue's problem, with a simple target: a person who is clearly bad.

Sadik - Khan seems to have beaten out the other serious contender, Michael Horodniceanu, who did a traffic - czar stint under Dinkins, in a face - off policy wonks were watching closely because the two candidates seemed to embody two opposite approaches.

Mark Littlewood is the former LibDem head - of - spin who has become the chief wonk at the venerable Institute of Economic Affairs, the directorship of which comes with a (big for wonkland) # 100,000 pay package.

This pits the policy wonks in any organisation, who are experts in their fields and trying to keep doors open with politicians and political processes, against the online advocacy folks who are looking to build a wide public advocacy force.

Like former Senator Adetunmbi, the other lead speakers, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, famed public intellectual and founding vice-chancellor of the Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State (the South West critique) and Dr. Charles Akinola (who as director - general, Osun Office of Economic Development and Partnerships, is the policy wonk strutting the Osun safety - net programmes), discharged themselves creditably.

Who's Running in The 2017 NYC Primary Elections by Jerry Skurnik (July 18, 2017) Politics wonk and election consultant, Jerry Skurnick tells us «Who's Running in The 2017 NYC Primary Elections» and which Bronx Democrats filed petition signatures with NYC -LSB-...]

In what has become an annual exercise, legislation to create a single - payer health care system in New York state drew ardent support from labor leaders, policy wonks and regular folk who told often grueling stories of their experiences navigating the current for - profit system.

Policy wonk: Schneiderman's Fall Was Inevitable Only someone who hasn't followed Eric Schneiderman's career should be shocked by his scandal - scarred resignation as New York attorney general, contends City Journal's Seth...

For policy wonks, university administrators and those who followed the Dearing report debate, the need for much more money for universities may have been old news - but it was not on the public radar.

«There is a lot of talk now about what can be done to avoid a boom and bust,» says Wonk, who sees «a good chance that this will reset the baseline» for NIH's annual appropriation.

For policy wonks, the list of ITRE members includes other familiar names, such as former industry commissioner Antonio Tajani from Italy; and ITRE alumna Marisa Matias, a left - wing member from Portugal; and German Christian - democrat Christian Ehler, who played an active role during Horizon 2020 negotiations.

Yet where Hurt's trauma came as a genuinely nasty surprise — and one that merited extensive dissection — Calvin is just a bad seed who, thanks to the Lucasfilm wonks» overtime work, gets bigger and badder with every frame, in inverse proportion to a rapidly thinning idea.

We also asked a few other people who are tech experts, policy wonks, parents, or all three to tell us about their favorite learning apps.

But a high school in bayou country proved too small for Hess, who's become one of the biggest wonks in the onetime (and sometimes still) swamp that is Washington, D.C.

Even when in a position to be impolitic, policy wonks, scholars, consultants, and would - be reformers still work with districts, researchers, and colleagues who want foundation dollars.

A Study of Cumulative Advantage in the Educational Career,» by Notre Dame sociologist Megan Andrew, published Sept. 26, 2014, in the journal Social Forces is an empirically solid analysis that adds more weight to those who say retention — what education wonks call repeating a grade — is ultimately harmful.

Certainly you can expect the likes of Manhattan Institute wonk Max Eden (who, for some reason, was testifying at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on school safety convened a month after the Parkland Massacre) to make big hay of the Maryland Republican's complaints.

To people who are not education policy wonks, «the level 2 inclusive» means the number of 15 - year - olds getting five GCSEs A * to C, including English or Welsh and maths.

What is good design for a policy wonk, is not a good design for a parents and policy officials,» said John Bailey, a former Bush White House official, who now wears several hats in the education policy world, including vice president at the Foundation for Excellence in Education.

TIME.com — The source list in Steven Brill's Class Warfare may read like the Who's Who of modern education reform, but the chapters that precede it often feel more like The Real Housewives of Policy Wonk County.

I pay good money for editing, cover art, and PR and marketing, but I'm in charge, not some self - serving publishing wonk sitting in his NYC office or a pariah agent recently graduated from X MFA program who has no idea about what it take to spin a good yarn.

It is amusing to see certain «wonks» who are not, trumpet Obama plundering Medicare to claim that he eliminated expenses there.

Liberal wonks, on the other hand, have claimed it's actually a paternalistic program at odds with the traditional Republican desire for less - intrusive government, since it relies on providers who make decisions for beneficiaries.

[Nov. 23, 4:47 p.m. Updated Brad Johson, who blogs at the Wonk Room, used the new «Climate Rapid Response Team» to test some of Lomborg's assertions and found lots of problems.]

Brad Johnson, who writes the Wonk Room blog for the Center for American Progress Action Fund, challenged me to clarify my stance on things, pointing to a post by his colleague Joe Romm concluding that «human civilization is on the precipice» and asking if I agreed.

On our Grist 50, you'll find scientists, policymakers, artists, farmers, social justice advocates, entrepreneurs, technologists, chefs, clean - energy wonks — all kinds of people who can help bail us out of our current climate code red.

So do numerous energy wonks, including two researchers who penned a 2009 cover story in Scientific American asserting that «wind, water, and solar technologies can provide 100 percent of the world's energy» by 2030.

Lomborg and Pielke are policy wonks (almost wrote won'ts) who make elementary errors on the science to defend their policy goals.

How is it that activists and policy wonks like me can get the message across to civil society that their governments will have no interest in doing anything until something gets shoved down their throat by the people who elect them?

Since I'm not a policy wonk, I'm just trying to provide inspiration to get us out of the prisoner's dilemma, I'll bite: sure, let's give FREE cargo bikes to anyone who lives under the poverty level.

Follow her on Twitter: @bluntshovels Award - winning writer El Gibbs, who writes from both a policy wonk and a disabled perspective, has crowdfunded #cripcroakey — a series of articles about disability and health.