Blue Shield of California planned to grade doctors with a blue ribbon if their clinical outcomes are superior.
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Mrs Timoshenko has taken to sporting a blue ribbon alongside her orange one.
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Just last week, you were recognized by a National Blue Ribbon -- as a National Blue Ribbon School because of your record of achievement.
He then appointed a blue ribbon commission to present new solutions.
Then the president appoints a Blue Ribbon commission that will make sure the issue continues to fester long after the news cameras have rushed off to swarm around the next story.
Yet before anyone slaps a blue ribbon and a hearty best accolade on its sleek windshield, it is time for a reality check the Model S is hardly one point away from flawless.
While speaking at a 2009 Prostate Cancer Foundation event, I made a promise to more than 100 of the best prostate cancer researchers of the world: "I will make certain that, in my lifetime, I will get a blue ribbon out there to match every pink ribbon!"
While the media and the professorate pilloried their reports, the group's charges caused the Council for Higher Education to form a blue ribbon committee last November comprised of seven political scientists - three from Israel and four from abroad -- to conduct a study of all of the political science departments in Israeli universities.
The specter of the president of a major national university running in abject fear, and forming a blue ribbon committee that one suspects has as its mission to pre-emptively run up the white flag to the OCR investigators, is indeed very disturbing and does not augur well for the vibrancy and independence of higher education.
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The proposal includes a community relations commission, a blue-ribbon panel to represent community concerns, a diverse interfaith alliance and an anti-violence campaign.
While the House Judiciary Committee is drafting a proposal for a "blue ribbon" commission to investigate the incident, a senior administration official tells CNN the White House is pushing for an independent investigation of the matter.
The Times failed to mention the fact that a blue-ribbon, congressionally mandated EMP Threat Commission produced a number of studies confirming the reality of a scenario in which ballistic-missile-delivered high-altitude electromagnetic pulse attacks could occur, with "catastrophic" effects on the United States.
Thanks to the tenacity of one of Capitol Hill's few bona fide scientists, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, Maryland Republican, who has long warned of the EMP threat, a blue-ribbon commission led by President Reagan's science adviser, William Graham, is now conducting a congressionally mandated study to assess this danger.
He has co-sponsored a bill to create a blue-ribbon commission to report on America's prisons.
On April 4, Governor Brewer announced the formation of a blue-ribbon panel to address the Fiesta Bowl scandal.
We shouldn't shame our young girls who get pregnant, but surely it shouldn't be seen as a blue-ribbon day.
Before becoming Surgeon General, I served on the Sullivan Commission, a blue-ribbon panel that looked for ways to diversify the health care workforce.
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Worse yet, a blue-ribbon commission has calculated that the probability of the use of weapons of mass destruction somewhere in the world by 2013 is now over 50 percent.
Allmon, who has been publishing Growth Stock Outlook since 1965, says that President George W. Bush should invite Warren Buffett to chair a blue-ribbon commission with power to issue subpoenas.
The top 10 CNN Heroes, chosen by a blue-ribbon panel from an initial pool of more than 3, 700 viewer nominations, were each honored with a documentary tribute and introduced by a celebrity presenter.
The Dunham's, who live in the small town of Sherrill in upstate New York, said their thoughts were with Jason when the president handed them the medal, a bronze star hanging from a sky blue ribbon.
Specifically, there should be a blue-ribbon, bipartisan commission configured to build upon the groundbreaking work concerning penetration of the U.S. capital markets by the Cox Committee, the Deutch Commission and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
The Center for Security Policy has long believed that such a sea-based missile defense system, first recommended by a blue-ribbon commission sponsored by the Heritage Foundation in 1995, would represent the most flexible, least costly and most militarily effective way to provide early protection to America's people, deployed forces and allies.
In 2001, we see even more clearly the validity of warnings sounded in 1998 by a blue-ribbon, bipartisan commission chaired by Donald Rumsfeld: While the Cold War was characterized by relatively predictable, deterrence-based strategic stability, the danger of devastating attacks via long-range missiles could now emerge at any time and with little warning.
The Roundtable featured brief presentations concerning the findings of a blue-ribbon studyU.S. Forces on the Golan Heights: An Assessment of the Benefits and Costs, the study was signed by eleven high-ranking, former U.S. national security officials including five retired four-star general officers, three of whom served as members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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The Roundtable featured brief presentations concerning the findings of a blue-ribbon studyU.S. Forces on the Golan Heights: An Assessment of the Benefits and Costs, the study was signed by eleven high-ranking, former U.S. national security officials -- including five retired four-star general officers, three of whom served as members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Worse yet, evidence continues to accumulate that both North Korea and Iran are interested in a nuclear weapons application that poses a particular and extraordinary danger to the United States: a ballistic missile-delivered warhead that would cause an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) capable of inflicting what a blue-ribbon commission recently called "catastrophic" damage to the electric grid and electronic systems across the country.
You can't go wrong with any item wrapped in a Tiffany blue box with a white ribbon.
But Mr. Ryan did what a million blue-ribbon panels never could: In late 2010 and 2011, he led an internal struggle to educate and convince the risk-averse Republican caucus to get behind his plan.
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