If the result is another lazy deficit-boosting, hard-decision-avoiding scheme (like George Bush's rotten Medicare bill), what president would want to be remembered for that?
There is no hard-and-fast decision rule or trigger mechanism to which he or she must adhere in deciding whether supply conditions in the oil market justify an intervention.
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And since anybody can gain access to all proposals and e-mail discussions, the decision-making process is hard to manipulate.
It includes a moratorium on building permits in the hard-hit areas until the decision is made a crucial component in a city that has already issued thousands of permits and is issuing more than 100 a day.
"Our membership has arisen and has been maintained because of a hard-headed, calculated and pragmatic decision by successive governments, including successive leaders of the Conservative Party, " he said.
Everybody knows everybody else, which may make objective decision-making hard.
There, as Iran moves swiftly towards the nuclear club, the US on the one hand refuses - as it does with Pakistan - to make the hard but essential decision to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
Microsoft's lawyers are working hard to get Judge Jackson's decision reversed--and they'll fight fiercely against any structural remedies.
In this economy, consumers want to feel that their business is valued, they made the right purchase decision, and they spent their hard-earned dollars wisely.
Most public schools seem mired in a decision-making process that makes it hard for them to introduce new subjects and topics in less than a couple of years.
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The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act ensures hard-working, middle class families will get the security they deserve and protects every American from the worst insurance company abuses.
If global brand name and prestige are a top-most major factor in decision making, Harvard is hard to beat for some years to come.
In fact, the context for this decision is fairly narrow, which is what -- the President is, as he has all along, moving to the next stage of implementing a policy that he thought long and hard about in making a decision that he made in the fall -- or rather late 2009.
For most investors, perhaps the single most important decision they face is who to trust to manage their hard-earned savings.
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Investors face a similar problem--until the data are out, it's hard to make a decision about the company.
"They've said they want me to start the season in Triple-A, but I'm going to make the decision hard on them, " Wheeler said.
It is a measure of how fast and how far the industry's star has waned that Sonera, Finland's biggest operator, was applauded on August 10th for its decision to hand back, for no financial return, its hard-won licence in Norway.
Having invested in schmoozing Russian decision-makers, the last thing they want is for their hard-won niches to be blasted by free competition.
Acquiring Horizon, which means a work on six new nuclear plants for ten to 15 years, is such a decision, as are sale this year of the California-based hard drive business to Western Digital and spin-off of a Japan-based LCD panel business.
It is hard to believe - especially in the wake of the President's much-ridiculed decision to close Guantanamo Bay without a better plan for safely incarcerating its dangerous detainees - that either the Chief Executive or legislators really want to impale themselves on another national security decision that defies common sense.
Here a magistrate judge ruled that producing the passphrase for the encrypted hard drive would constitute self-incrimination, but on appeal the District Court overturned that decision, holding that decrypting and producing the complete contents would not constitute self-incrimination since Boucher initially cooperated in showing some of the computer files to border agents.
The money, while helpful, won't turn the country around until its government makes a hard decision: to engage in a difficult and sustained battle against powerful, drug-financed guerrillas, just as Peru successfully did nearly a decade ago.
"It was a struggle to make this decision and he had to work really hard, which is what he did -- he drew hundreds and hundreds of drawings before he saw himself fit to be an artist, " said Meedendorp.
When these time-bombs explode, the decision-makers responsible for selecting them will be long gone and the stakeholders will be hard-pressed to piece together what went wrong.
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In any event, the decision brings GM now to a nearly complete unwinding of the legacy of Joel Ewanick, its former hard-charging chief marketing officer who left last summer after jumping in 2010 to GM from Nissan, where he spent just a few weeks after leaping to Nissan from CMO of Hyundai Motor America.
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