For esteemed financial experts like Shiller, there is a special responsibility to press for the obvious top-priority change: transparency in derivatives trading.
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But it also raises the central question: Which problem takes priority, climate change or energy independence?
Mr Obama has made climate change a major priority for his administration, after previous incumbents had failed to ratify the Kyoto treaty.
In citing climate change as a priority, Obama raised the profile of the issue on the national agenda after a presidential campaign in which it was almost never mentioned.
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Since starting his job as secretary of state in February, Mr Kerry has devoted most of his energy to the Middle East and has also indicated climate change is a priority for him - two intractable issues for different reasons.
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Bush said his administration will fully fund high priority areas for scientific research into climate change over the next five years, and help developing nations to match the U.S. commitment.
Yet whatever Mr Cameron's personal views, his party sees environmentalism as an indulgent luxury: in a poll, Tory MPs ranked climate change as the lowest policy priority for a Tory government.
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But, to the dismay of some anti-abortion campaigners, that change would give a higher priority to the mother's life if she is in danger (other than from a suicide threat) than to a fetus's right to life.
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But the proposals are controversial, with some MPs and peers arguing that constitutional change should not be a priority at a time of economic crisis, and also saying that altering the Lords could undermine the primacy of the Commons.
What was he trying to signal about where climate change would fall on his priority list in a second term, and is there any upcoming action that you can point to that he's going to take on that topic?
In addition to resonating more with people of all ages for whom social change has become a high priority, being a social purpose leader is a competitive imperative: Samsung, Microsoft, and Research in Motion are much more evolved in this area.
Taxes are a big priority, of course, but with the quasi-sea change this election is effecting, they need some time to settle on who does what.
The change, passed unanimously under the Homelessness (Abolition of Priority Need Test) (Scotland) Order 2012, will give an estimated 3, 000 more people a year the right to settled accommodation.
The key to getting people past their discomfort to actual behavior change is persistence: a behavioral change initiative will fail if it is no longer a priority six months later.
The top priority Tuesday wasn't necessarily jobs, or guns, or climate change, or voting rights.
Key drivers impacted by the change in our outlook for the company are average daily international priority and economy shipment volumes, and FedEx Express EBITDA margins.
Kent Schaffer, who held on for six months before being fired earlier this year, said Mr. Stanford wanted the criminal trial to be moved to another city, in spite of being advised by Mr. Schaffer that the priority should be to prepare for trial, not to fight for a change of venue, among other "superfluous" issues.
Ms Hyslop highlighted four priority areas in the action plan for Scotland in the EU: energy and climate change, research and creativity, the marine environment and justice.
In 1979 3M revamped its technology--sold under the Opticom brand--to allow it to recognize two different priority levels: a high level for emergency vehicles, which could force traffic lights to change immediately and a lower level for transit vehicles, which could hold off changing the light entirely if changing the light to green would snarl traffic.
For example, climate change remains a most important threat to biodiversity and thus CO2 reduction is a top priority of the company.
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The company says it gives its clients' interest top priority, and may reduce its assets under management, restrain its growth, reduce its fees or otherwise change its terms even in circumstances where other firms might feel such actions are unnecessary.
In any counseling session, the biggest priority of the counselor is to keep you talking because the most successful means of convincing someone that they need to change is to have that person come to that realization on their own.
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