Sentences with phrase «wonks think»

To be fair, wonks think the plan is well - designed when it comes to cutting congestion in Manhattan.

She throws them a bit of Olympics because it's the sort of thing political wonks think normal people like (and they're probably right).

Not exact matches

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.

The only thing that surprised me, perhaps because I still think of him as the young Wonk - in - Chief of 20 years ago, is his appearance.

«I think I was probably just a bit of a wonk,» he admits.

So when I hear a candidate talk like a policy wonk, I think, «Yeah.»

Parties mustn't be led by wonks, lecturers and think - tanks.»

John Prescott has defended Ed Miliband's right to dismiss the work of the IPPR think - tank, declaring in a Sunday newspaper: «These wonks can be pretty precious.»

You'd think the politics blog would cover this angle; instead I found it over at at the econ / wonk blog:

It starts with what the people want our democracy to look like, not what Westminster wonks and party hacks think will wrong - foot the opposition.

At least a few people think a lasting boost in the regular appropriations for some science agencies is a real possibility, according to a well - informed Washington observer we'll call Polly C. Wonk.

Warner is all for transparency, but being a chemist himself, he knows how his colleagues think, and he's concerned that if green chemistry becomes mandatory, industrial chemists will misunderstand it, writing it off as a policy - wonk proposal when in fact it is solid science, built on the core principles of traditional chemistry.

They didn't look to hire an eLearning consultant because they didn't realize they exist, or if they did realize they existed, they think we are solely university employees converting classes to on - line and putting tenured professors out of work, or corporate wonks writing boring sexual harassment and timecard training.

Even with its standing - room - only supply of policy wonks, foundation staff, think tankers, and corporate chiefs, that's a lot.

«One thing we do know from our research is that parents are less interested in these data than policymakers, researchers and think tank wonks.

I think it is safe to say that Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, the founders of KIPP, have had more influence on the school reform debate than any academic or policy wonk over the past 15 years.

And unlike policy wonks, they're not thinking about whether it's a traditional public school, charter school, magnet or private school.

The liberal think tank that hired me focused on state issues, so I had nothing to do with the project that was consuming D.C. wonks at the time: a once - a-decade reauthorization of the mammoth federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act that would become the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

Think about it: For less than a dollar per person, you can introduce readers you know, living in the U.S. or the U.K., to Dylan Hunter — along with Annie Woods, Wonk, Garrett, Cronin, Danika, and (of course) Luna.

The thinking is that the techies are such irredeemable wonks that even though they have made buckets of money, their idea of a cool ride is a little loaf of bread on wheels.

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

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.

Climate wonks would recognize the charts and graphs that university professors and policy think - tank experts shared showing how our planet is being affected by carbon pollution, where the tipping point is for our climate, and how much the Keystone XL pipeline will make our climate crisis worse.

Indeed, in the community of scientists and scholars and wonks that thinks about geoengineering, there is a persistent worry that some changes in mindset might come terribly quickly: Specifically, they fear that a significant part of the political class, especially in America, might move with Necker - cube instaneity from «climate change does not exist / is not man made and thus is not a problem to address» to «climate change can be easily sorted out by geoengineering and is not a problem to address any further.»