But companies still face several legal and practical challenges to implementing the policy, according to Johnson, unless it is a case of massive fraud or gross negligence, where it is easier to establish a cause-effect relationship.
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It is the only intergovernmental programme that aims to apply social science research to development issues, encouraging policy-oriented-research to face current global challenges, and bridging the gaps between researchers, civil society and policy-makers in order to allow them to work together, whilst respecting the individual role and place of each actor.
Whether such leverage is sufficient to persuade the Obama administration, preoccupied with a range of competing domestic and international challenges, to depart from a policy of "strategic patience" is still unclear, even allowing for the appointment of a new secretary of state - John Kerry - who reportedly favours a more engagement-centred approach to North Korea.
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The social sciences are vital here -- to develop better policy in response to needs and challenges.
He decided to focus on the policy challenges ahead, generally dismissing the idea that there was much chance for him to make government work better.
It's time to tap the ingenuity of engineers and entrepreneurs, policy experts and working folks to meet the challenges of our time.
The premise is simple: In a political environment where perception often trumps policy, mount early challenges to your opponent's strongest attributes to raise questions and create an alternative image in the minds of voters.
It also looks ahead to our continuing efforts to reform, rebalance, and renew our national drug control policy to address the public health and safety challenges of the 21st century.
The Forum provides a platform for the science, technology and innovation community to discuss sustainable development challenges and solutions with policy-makers and other stakeholders.
And that is an illustration of the fact that it is not always best to try to address two challenges with what in the policy world we call a single-policy instrument.
Between now and Wednesday, thousands of people from over 130 countries are participating together virtually to find shared solutions to common challenges, engage with US foreign policy leadership, and simply connect with each other -- through an online event called Global Pulse 2010.
The event aims to promote the exchange of ideas in support of policy for culture and to strengthen state cultural policy strategies with a view to bridging the gap between the new challenges and institutional responses.
Western observers are confusing internal Iranian disagreements about how to manage their economic challenges with disagreements about foreign policy.
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The U.S. is perhaps the least likely of the bunch to resolve the various policy and regulatory challenges involved in reconciling these competing perspectives.
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When it comes to economic integration and exchanges, I am completely sympathetic to the fact that there are challenges around monetary policy in developed and less-developed countries.
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He is credited with helping GM strengthen its position and voice on Capitol Hill, and with its many regulatory agencies, on a wide range of business challenges related to energy, tax, labor and finance policy.
The rise in global commodities has aggravated the challenges of this policy, since Beijing can expect to import more goods at higher costs, even as it fails to generate new household consumption-driven demand effectively (notwithstanding the surge in automobile imports when comparing the first-quarter 2011 deficit to that of 2004).
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As in many past foreign policy challenges, waiting for the current situation to worsen will only require more drastic measures in the future.
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Meanwhile, Mr Clegg wrote to Prime Minister Gordon Brown demanding he end the government's legal challenges that prevent the release of 50 files relating to its policy on Gurkha soldiers.
The States Strategic Plan, released by the Policy Council, aims to identify the challenges and difficulties the island is going to face over the next 20 to 25 years.
And they can be domestic problems or international challenges, and your job is to handle them and take policy positions and take actions based on what you think is best for the United States of America.
When Baker's own Deputy, Lawrence S. Eagleburger, made a speech in September at Georgetown University that seemed to depart from the "euphoric" script by warning against "complacency...about the new order of foreign policy challenges" and urging the West "to avoid bankrolling merely cosmetic Soviet reforms, " he received a sharp dressing down from his superior.
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Stronger links between science and policy are key to harnessing innovation and addressing the challenges we face, from environmental to social and economic.
He has shown a clear grasp of our foreign policy and national security challenges, and a firm commitment to repair our badly strained military.
And during the past year, the PERAB subcommittee on education and training has talked with scores of employers, educators, labor, and policy leaders to solicit their views on workforce development challenges.
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And as one of the great economic minds of our time, Larry has earned a global reputation for being able to cut to the heart of the most complex and novel policy challenges.
Weinberger and Forbes are expected to address contemporary U.S. foreign policy choices and challenges.
Leaders from over thirty Federal agencies have come to learn about how to incorporate prizes and incentive-backed challenges into their work of addressing complex policy problems.
Key foreign policy challenges, and in particular maintaining a united front in relation to Iran and the recent elections, will also play an important part of the proceedings.
So this is -- these are difficult policy challenges, and anybody who says that there's an easy answer to doing something about it right away is just not telling the truth.
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