So often people think it has to be a high-tech solution--a new laser or a new drug--to be powerful, and what we do in our work is use these very expensive, high-tech, state-of-the-art measures to prove how powerful low-tech and low-cost interventions can be.
While the relief bill is obviously necessary, taxpayers should be rightfully disappointed that the package contains no provisions requiring stronger planning measures to protect against more powerful future storms.
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Given what ails us, additional monetary policy measures are poor substitutes for more powerful pro-growth policies.
Powerful labor unions and their Democratic allies believe such measures impose unfair financial burdens on workers and that Republican efforts against collective bargaining are veiled attempts to gut labor unions, a traditionally Democratic constituency.
Powerful and conservative religious lobbies prevent the adoption of rational measures in countries as diverse as Malaysia and the United States.
Opinion polls have consistently shown most Americans support more gun control measures, but the firearms lobby wields a powerful influence over lawmakers.
This is an admirable example of top university leaders taking concrete measures to turn their institutions into even more powerful engines of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Miner, who doesn't ask for aid or a bailout, says she wants to work with the governor to come up with more cost-reduction measures, many of which were won by politically powerful unions in Albany.
Resistance from local governments and powerful state-owned companies will make it hard to implement such measures.
Basically, Obama is saying that if Republicans want to cut costs, they should consider the kinds of cost control measures that will make Medicare more, not less, powerful.
It accused Tepco and regulators at the nuclear and industrial safety agency of failing to take adequate safety measures, despite evidence that the area was susceptible to powerful earthquakes and tsunamis.
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He did so to placate powerful interest groups in the medical industry who were dead set against these measures.
"This database will be a powerful tool that will aid in the enforcement of New York's gun control measures and keep more of our citizens out of harm's way, " Silver said.
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