That is why the central task for discussions and debates during the Conference is to define new priorities of cultural policy as policy for culture.
To be fair to the politicians, this fiscal balancing act is far harder than the central bankers' task, for two reasons.
For more than two decades, central banks' main task was to fight inflation.
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This complicates the task for central bankers of setting interest rates.
That task is central to meeting commitments to hitting EU deficit targets and bringing down the public debt, which has risen above 90 per cent of gross domestic product.
The task of a central-bank watcher is to work out which indicators the bank is following.
If something triggers the flight of those funds, Mr Bernanke will be called upon to stem the flow without tipping the economy into recession a difficult task, as central bankers in countries like Argentina can attest.
In 1993, we were just entering what you might call the golden age of central bank inflation targeting - when central banks were not only given the task of targeting future inflation but actually seemed to be able to do it.
To date, inflation expectations appear to have remained reasonably well anchored, but any tendency of inflation expectations to become unmoored or for the Fed's inflation-fighting credibility to be eroded could greatly complicate the task of sustaining price stability and reduce the central bank's policy flexibility to counter shortfalls in growth in the future.
Both leaders face the daunting task of propping up Somalia's first effective central government since 1991.
The new leaders face the daunting task of propping up Somalia's first effective central government since 1991.
The new president faces an extremely complex task in office, says the BBC's Central America correspondent, Will Grant.
It would be politically much more acceptable to delegate this task to an independent European body like the European Central Bank than to relinquish the right to set fiscal policy.
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They doubt their overstretched local authorities are up to the task, and want wise policymaking support from the central government of the sort that, for good or ill, used to be a hallmark of the Japanese state.
Lord Turner says that the conventional institutions that we look to provide stability for the financial system and the economy - micro-prudential regulators such as the FSA or central banks like the Bank of England - don't have adequate tools for the task.
Many have commented that the Vatican's central offices, even aside from the scandal of Vatileaks, need an overhaul, and that the most urgent task for the next pope will be organisational reform.
In 2009, the RIKEN-TRI Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research (RTC), a joint project established in 2007 and located at the Nagoya Science Park in central Japan, unveiled a robot called RIBA (Robot for Interactive Body Assistance) designed to assist in this task.
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The idea is to couple the central processing units (CPUs) cranked out by Intel and AMD, which can move nimbly from one kind of task to another, with the GPUs put out by AMD and Nvidia, which are good at grinding through vast numbers of tasks at the same time.
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