Mr Saakashvili and Mr Yushchenko are looking for a concrete foreign-policy achievement.
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Besides winning Indonesia a seat on the United Nations' new human-rights body, Mr Yudhoyono's main foreign-policy achievement so far has been improved relations with the United States.
The latest example is a new Web video that accuses President Barack Obama of engineering classified leaks and claiming undue credit on his signature foreign policy achievement: the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
This helps explain Mr Singh's cosying-up to Iraq in 2001, and contributes to the misgivings many Congress members have about the government's most important foreign-policy achievement: a controversial agreement on nuclear co-operation with America.
Solving Taxmageddon would be a major policy achievement, and Obama could argue that he had fulfilled his promise from the 2008 campaign: that he would bring the two major parties together to forge bipartisan agreements.
On the other hand, if Netanyahu sits on his laurels, he will be surprised to see how quickly Obama - desperate for a foreign policy achievement after being laughed out of Teheran and Pyongyang - forgets his happiness at Netanyahu's address.
Finally, Whitehall high-flyers traditionally regard the making of policy as the supreme bureaucratic achievement and delivery of policy as an altogether lower form of life.
Once the road ahead has been articulated by Nepali decision and policy makers, achievement in these areas can be accelerated by a coordinated and sustained response by development partners.
We wrestle with all sorts of policy questions about the achievement gap, intergenerational poverty and the like.
Nevertheless it suggests that broader social policy is every bit as important as education policy in determining educational achievement.
Ms. Coloretti is a recipient of the National Public Service Award, the Public Policy and International Affairs Achievement Award, and the Government Finance Officers Association Distinguished Budget Presentation Award.
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Mr Kim received a Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the policy's most glowing achievement, his summit meeting in 2000 with the North's Kim Jong Il.
Careful work by Maria Donovan Fitzpatrick of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research looked at student achievement in Georgia as its pre-K program phased in.
One is that which has characterised President Clinton's administration: that is to say, a successful political strategy, aimed at the middle ground, but a drifting policy strategy, which limits achievement.
Furthermore, national policy documents have been recently prepared, highlighting a series of obstacles hindering progress towards EFA goals achievement, demonstrating the need for evidence-based policy formulation and better informed decision-making.
But more needed to be done, so the education minister Catherine Ashton was making sure that minority achievement was addressed in every policy area, says the government.
But this is not an appropriate role for public policy at this point when the barriers to achievement have been taken away.
Yet Mr Obama's main achievement is a change of tone in foreign policy.
In the 1980s, millions of outraged Americans succeeded in bringing about a singular achievement -- ending South Africa's racist apartheid policy.
Campaigners increasingly became over-specialised and over-concerned with trying to affect government policy behind the scenes, confusing access with influence, activity with achievement.
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At present, Los Angeles is to varying degrees losing residents (and repelling many more) thanks to taxes and regulations (though this reviewer would say U.S. dollar policy is the biggest, yet largely unsung, factor) that tell future Ahmansons that achievement will be penalized by the political class in Sacramento.
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