Sentences with phrase «wonks with»

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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.

Britain's productivity crisis has been a driving force behind the dismal economic growth that has characterised its economy since 2009, and policy wonks are increasingly concerned, with Chancellor Philip Hammond last week announcing billions of pounds of extra investment more pounds to his «National Productivity Investment Fund.»

I often dip into EIA data, so I could sympathize with American energy analysts and policy wonks bemoaning the situation.

As a side point, perhaps interesting to monetary wonks here at OTE, the title's insistence on the 1993 vintage of the Taylor rule is out of step with much research on the variables, values, and coefficients that would go into such a rule today.

With Hillary Clinton's tax proposals to encourage longer - term investing, the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. primary season.

A well - known policy wonk and party loyalist, Mr. Hancock will be tasked with smoothing over those hard feelings.

United States steel producers and consumers, not to mention international trade wonks, have been waiting with bated breath for the release of the Commerce Department's report on its Section 232 investigation of steel imports.

Wonk, with respect... prostate or colon cancer is not something you can get by the choices in your life in the same way as choosing to go to bed with a guy.

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.

Although the film has national reach, Lunch Line is a Chicago story through and through: at the post-screening discussion, the co-directors, Michael Graziano and Ernie Park, found themselves reunited with several of the food - service experts, policy wonks, corporate executives and community activists depicted in their film.

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.

Policy wonks from a variety of political backgrounds have sought to generalize this concept to establish a «universal basic income» that everyone gets simply for being alive paid for with tax funds.

In private, Lib Dem policy wonks would look a bit bemused and sort of accept that, yes, perhaps, maybe the party's policy of abolishing the CTF wasn't right, but the party had to stick with it to «make the figures add up» and that, «after the election», there would be a rethink.

However, the unpredictable nature of this primary election has not stopped a seemingly endless array of pundits, wonks, and psychics from bombarding the airwaves with their half - witted predictions.

The Poozer Politics Podcast features interviews by David Lombardo with newsmakers, journalists, policy wonks and recovering journalists.

Clinton became governor again at 34, and Hillary forever stepped into the spotlight as a political wonk in her own right, spearheading efforts on education reform (previously, Hillary's feminist, Midwestern background, lack of accent, and thick - rimmed glasses did not sit well with Southern Democrats).

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.

While political parties have become increasingly sophisticated organisations with a cadre of professional policy wonks, media managers and spin doctors, when it comes to fighting elections they remain heavily dependent on a large number of volunteers to knock on doors, deliver leaflets and make phone calls.

In an interview with the writer Ron Suskindthis year, Obama even described his policy - wonk predilections as a «disease,» identifying with Democratic former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.

That may make sense to health wonks, and it aligns with the state's overall public health goals, but it causes deep angst in communities that fear losing their hospital and equate hospitals with health care.

In an event anticipated among local wonks, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner (a liberal Democrat) teamed with Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci (a Conservative Republican) to argue against the metropolitan government plan proposed by the community group Consensus.

But, perhaps frustratingly for economic - development officials and other policy wonks, it's unclear how New York, with its rapidly shrinking manufacturing base and sky - high taxes, beat the odds.

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.

What good wonks we are, not letting scandal obscure our eagle - eyed hunt for the candidate with the best record and soundest policy proposals.

Everyone with a pulse knew Dems would have super high turnout with Obama on the ballot, even without being policy wonks and reading polls.

Of course, the tapes could just be read and the results be transmitted by phone, but this would necessarily combine old technology with new technology, and thus not satisfy the hardcore computer wonks such as what you seem to be out there, and would not reflect an official result from what is considered the more reliable source, ie, the memory card.

Officially called the «Task Force on Evaluating Economic Development Tax Expenditures,» the group brings together liberal activists such as Javier Valdes of Make the Road with budget wonks, such as Michael Dardia of the Citizens Budget Commission and James Parrott of the Fiscal Policy Institute.

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-...]

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.

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.

The fellowship allowed him to collaborate with «transformative» scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs, and policy wonks, he added.

So hacktivist groups are now building tools that buttress their efforts with real ballot - box power, helping people deploy their votes effectively and liberating policymaking from the wonks and lobbyists (see «Better than a ballot box: Could digital democracy win your vote?

Veep works because it is a compact ensemble comedy, filled with the sort of overheard details and wonk verisimilitude that has a way of making the show seem just real enough, even when it has played coy about whether its lead character is a Democrat or a Republican.

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.

You don't have to be a political wonk to get the feeling that the play «1984» is reverberating with relevancy these days.

It should thrill cinephiles and tech wonks in equal measure... Pretty much every frame of the film is packed with vivid, contrasting colors, and one of the strengths of the high - def version is how fixed and solid the colors are... Film grain, a bedbug of certain high - def advocates, is spectacularly intact... Indeed, Chungking Express is one of those films that thoroughly vindicates something film preservationist Robert Harris once said to me: «The grain is the picture.»

It's less Philip K. Dick than Medgar Evers) and its attempts to pull in some literary credibility with a running gimmick about Hansel & Gretel (had Spooner really read the fairytale, he would've solved the mystery a lot quicker), I, Robot plays like a tug - of - war between a smart source material and some really venal, really cynical studio wonks.

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.

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.

When a politician supports national standards with as much gusto as we wonks do, national standards will stand a fighting chance.

With the votes finally counted almost everywhere, the fancies of education policy wonks turn to ESEA / NCLB, long overdue for reauthorization — and the subject of many aches, pains, and kvetches.

But they didn't want the Futures of School Reform working group to be just academics, so they pulled people from various circles and with differing ideologies, including academics, government officials, politicians and policy wonks, practitioners already working on reform, foundation folks, entrepreneurs, and one international deputy minister of education.

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

Dr. Cantrell and I began with my policy recommendations, and I started sounding like a wonk.

But Evergreen State politicians, along with Petrilli and other Beltway reform wonks, ignore a few inconvenient facts.

Every two years, education policy wonks like me wait with bated breath for the release of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

This is because it can be difficult for even the most reform - minded governors, with strong support for his efforts from activists and wonks on the ground, to overhaul public education.

Today's speech by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act, along with the entire circus over the latest efforts to pass a new version of the federal education law, have certainly garnered plenty of attention from Beltway school reformers and other policy wonks.

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.