Ms Purdy said she would like to see the policy distinguish between "what is acceptable and what isn't" so people in situations like hers could make decisions about what to do.
Whether its products or people, life is little more than a sorting process: we are constantly looking for brands and people we can trust, and there is a tremendous premium in being able to make these decisions accurately without having to do tons of time consuming research.
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But that's the role that we have to play -- to ensure that when the federal on-scene coordinator and our national incident commander make decisions that authorize BP to do different things, that the conditions at which that authorization is given are met.
That was working out an approach with the Speaker that then became very well known to the public, the willingness of this President to make tough decisions, do hard things for Democrats, his commitment to bringing Democrats along in that process.
"In order for us to adapt to these changes and make sensible decisions about what we do to the surface of the planet, we need the information this satellite series gives us, " he told told BBC News.
Progressives who support the right of fifteen year old girls to make decisions about abortion without parental notification do not trust these same girls later in life to make their own investment choices with their Social Security funds.
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Thus, it provides doctors not so much a recipe for treatment, but a sense of knowledge, empowering them to make informed therapeutic decisions without explicitly telling them what to do.
Now a question for the reader: Do you want people like Androes to be able to make the decisions he made or do you want them made by others?
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Faced with tough situations, good people try to do their best to make the right decisions.
Who would you choose to make those decisions and what would you tell your surrogate to do for you?
To do so limits our ability to make informed decisions and puts us at risk of letting others control our destinies rather than making our own.
In those situations you have to make the right decisions on the run and execute what you want to do.
But they do have a lot of information to help them make investment decisions (including reports from analysts who do gather substantial information about a company, analyze the data, and then suggest prospects for the future).
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And ultimately, though, they're going to have to make a lot of these decisions, and so what we can do is to prod, advise, suggest.
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I'm also the creative head: I have to be free to make my decisions, and I have already proven that I know how to do it.
They tend to make decisions that are as risk-averse as possible, which is difficult to do in the venture capital business given its inherent riskiness.
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"Living mortgage-free has given us the freedom to make decisions based on what will make us happy, not what we have to do to pay the mortgage, " Berzins said in a CNN iReport.
Often, the patient is left at the mercy of others to make the end-of-life decisions because the patient is in no position to do so.
You've got to be smart, make decisions, and do all of that stuff, but it's an unbelievable game.
It is also clear that with secrecy, managers can make poor pay decisions because they do not have to defend them.
"As we harshly judge those who had to make decisions we don't have to make, please remember this: that what we do in looking back may determine how we move forward, " said Sen.
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We speak for -- obviously Admiral Allen, Secretary Chu, Carol Browner and others direct BP to do what we think is scientific and necessary in order to make the right decisions and order the right things be done at that structure.
The crystal ball showed me several futures and now I do indeed need to make some decisions.
And we have the resources to do it if we make good decisions.
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But again, one of the decisions we have to make is how much of this do we want to do without really disrupting and putting people to sleep?
Currently, they do not have to make clawbacks decisions public.
One final point about why pay secrecy is an obsolete practice: as already mentioned, when pay is secret, managers are often tempted to make and do make indefensible pay decisions.
At the beginning of each of the studies, people were asked whether they had excessive workloads or insufficient time to do their job as well as questions around how much freedom they had to make decisions.
We can make those tough decisions if people are willing to work together to do that.
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