By not clarifying the few key priorities, leadership teams unintentionally delegate priority-setting to their people.
Security is another priority -- especially keeping nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists.
Although foreign banks must also hold big slugs of bonds, they had more lenient priority-lending rules until now.
Our robust contingency plans will ensure that our top priority - to make payment to our customers - is maintained.
Republicans' top priority -- tackling federal spending and reining in record deficits -- came up early in the Republican conference meeting.
As a result, IT has moved from a low-priority to high-priority, a cost center to a profit center, non-strategic to strategic.
The bundle combined the priority-boarding package it currently sells with its Economy Plus extra-legroom seating, two checked bags and additional frequent-flier miles.
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"It is time to stop the tantrums, grow up, and work together on Americans' number one priority -- creating jobs, " she said.
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"Finding a better way to work should be a company's priority -- not telling people where they can do said work, " Evans said.
Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard admitted that the Europa League is not his club's top priority - but is confident the Reds will progress from the group stage.
Laws of diminishing returns mean that even if the science continues to progress, the amount of benefit that can be gained by fine-tuning priority-setting will diminish over time.
In a statement Thursday night, the White House didn't address Thursday's House proceedings but referenced its top priority -- ensuring that 98% of Americans don't see their taxes rise in January.
Our priority -- our main priority is jobs and on getting the economy focused on creating those jobs in both the short term and laying the foundation for long-term economic growth.
What has the highest priority--educating your children or grandchildren?
Eradicating meaningless initials, acronyms and jargon in favour of simple, clear language is a priority - and I am pleased to say that this approach has been supported by the senior team.
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The Solar Energy Industries Association is seeking an eight year extension of the tax credit--their top legislative priority--and they say that the majority of lawmakers in both the House and Senate support the extension.
As the press conference made clear, government action to restore their public finances - both short and long term, national and eurozone-wide - is still the top priority - for the ECB as for Germany.
"Getting downward movement on IT prices and easing the bite of price discrimination should be an important micro-economic priority - so I'm looking forward to hearing from these firms about their pricing approaches, " he added.
One consumer group says there should be another priority - making sure the millions who cannot get any kind of decent connection aren't left out as the rest of the country gets ever faster mobile networks.
If this is true it would explain why British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who is in Washington next week, has said it should be the US's highest priority - he already knows it will be.
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Deliberations in the forthcoming HLG meeting in Dakar, Senegal (11-13 December 2007) will be informed by this new Report and also by the main discussion points on EFA policy, strategy and priority-setting prepared by the Working Group.
Within minutes, Welsh recalls, the director of the NSA was notified and the decision was made to send a rare "FLASH" message -- the highest priority -- to the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum via the State Department.
If Congress imposes a hard budget constraint on itself by refusing to raise the debt ceiling and establishes Social Security and interest on the debt as priority must-pays out of revenues before any other programs may be funded, it would require total other, non-priority spending to be reduced not quite one-third on average during the next ten years.
It also features a mode dial for swift, effortless setting of 10 different shooting modes - ranging from the hands-off Auto Picture and the all-purpose Programmed AE, to the more creative Aperture-priority AE, Shutter-priority AE and Metered Manual.
It said RCT had failed people with real needs while spending money "like confetti" on expensive, low-priority services - such as a community day care centre, which was often used by just three people a day.
And I can assure you everybody on this team, everybody sitting around the table has made this a number-one priority and this continues to be my number-one priority.
Joyce said the new partnership would benefit its frequent flyers in particular, with the airlines offering reciprocal access to tier status benefits, including end-to-end recognition of customers, lounge access and priority check-in and boarding.
Just under 19, 000 A-level papers were sent back for what is called a "high priority re-mark" - an increase of 29% on last year - as teenagers waited to confirm their university or college places.
Benefits vary by status level, but include early entrance to the arena, exclusive ticket window and concession lines, pre-sale ticket priority, on-court photos with the team and many more such perks.
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So this is going to be a top priority generally -- improving our environmental quality.
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