The practical effect of such a policy direction is to eschew the steps called for by the Strategic Posture Commission and, indeed, the recommendations of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the commander of Strategic Command, General Kevin Chilton and the director of the National Nuclear Security Administration, Thomas D'Agostino.
At medical schools, pharma companies, and even at the FDA, biostatisticians and clinical researchers recognize that retrospective data when treated with appropriate bias-controlling statistical methods, can in fact be reliable, particularly as it points to direction of influence and the general magnitude of effect.
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But now the process is being reversed - Greeks are moving in the other direction, away from urban financial hardship as the effect of the crisis deepens.
Retrospective analysis should not be the basis of an FDA approval, of course, but it can and should be the basis to understand direction and general magnitude of an underlying cause-effect relationship, particularly when that relationship is already is well established i.e.
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Wars also cause an excessive focus on what the competitor is doing and, in effect, allow that competitor to dictate the direction of the firm engaging in that war.
This week the Fed took another step in that direction: by buying commercial paper, it is now in effect lending direct to companies.
The U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which went into effect May 15, 2012, has been one driving force in that direction, eliminating barriers to billions of dollars of U.S. exports.
He has now moved on to a plan which, in principle, will have a very important, positive effect and is a good start in what I see as the right direction.
Most of it is, of course, radiated back into space. (It is the partial blocking of this radiation by gases such as carbon dioxide that causes the much-talked-of greenhouse effect.) Some of it, however, goes in the opposite direction, into the ground.
What this means is that the conventional development model on consoles, which is still anchored by investment sucking AAA titles like Mass Effect 3 and Modern Warfare, is seeing more and more pressure from nearly every direction.
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When we vote for one party or the other party, we collectively decide which direction the nation should be headed. 2010 was an off-year, but the aggregate effect of all the House races was to put in office a huge majority of Republicans who had signed the Americans for Tax Reform tax pledge.
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