Sentences with phrase «wonk world»

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What a tragedy it is when we collectively dismiss the goals and aspirations of the entrepreneur, the artist, the writer, the thinker, because their world is more self - consuming than the simple bureaucratic policy wonk would have us believe.

Both of these capacious minds, I suspect, would have felt rather out of place in today's technocratic world of wonks and white papers, with its distinction between «politics» and «policy» — but more on that later.

The inarticulate «wonk wonk wonk» of the store manager is blaring out of the announcement system and competing with the world's most annoying music.

Once you immerse yourself in the world of school policy (like anything else) you fall prey to becoming a wonk, and using verbage normal people might not recognize — phrases like «blended learning» or «21st century skills.»

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.

A few years ago, the food world wonks proclaimed that Spain was the new France.

Visit the foundation's Weekly Wonk blog for answers from Sharon E. Burke, an international and energy security analyst, Steve LeVine of Quartz, Daniel Sarewitz, professor of science and society at Arizona State University, and Russell Gold, senior energy reporter at the Wall Street Journal and author of «The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World.»

As recently as last year, anxious wonks produced a paper for the World Bank arguing that the situation in Tuvalu (pop.

One might wonder why all of these policy wonks didn't think to ask a physicist for advice on policy and world trade earlier!

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.

In the last few years, there has been a growing consensus among scholars and wonks that the rest of the world will follow the West in living modern lives complete with modern infrastructure, industry, and development.