This week's interest-rate cuts were sensible and even, in the case of Europe, overdue.
Marinkovic's anti-nanometer stance is inherently sensible, and we'd have subscribed to it wholeheartedly were it not for his untimely mention of the iPad.
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It has proposed sensible reforms to America's private-pension insurance system, including tying premiums to risk and a more accurate method of measuring pension assets and liabilities.
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All this means that the government's wish to be a new-economy exemplar is entirely sensible and not just a bit of New Labour fluff.
So don't expect any searing and transparent post-mortem of the team's performance, or a sensible plan for the future.
Sadly, such a timely, sensible approach is so beyond Bernanke's mind-set--not to mention that of most other economists and policymakers--that he'll never do it.
In reality, the Patriot Act is an eminently sensible overhaul of the government's antiquated counter-terror arsenal, an overhaul that reflects the realization that we cannot hope to fight a 21st century war using 20th century legal instruments.
And what I've said very specifically, very detailed is that I'm prepared to take on the problem where it exists -- on entitlements -- and do some things that my own party really doesn't like -- if it's part of a broader package of sensible deficit reduction.
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Ten months earlier the company failed to consummate what would have been a perfectly sensible merger with Norway's Telenor, also state-controlled (80%).
Alec Baldwin's self-transformation into a character actor is one of the most sensible and honorable things that a fading movie star has ever done.
But the former head of the armed forces, Sir Jock Stirrup, told the BBC on Sunday that the aircraft carriers deal had been done for "entirely sensible" reasons - to persuade the UK's shipbuilding industry to scale down and invest in rationalisation.
But as Raisa Deber, a health-policy expert at the University of Toronto, points out, the strongest selling-point of Mr Romanow's report is not his largely sensible proposals, but the fact that he spent 18 months listening to the views of ordinary Canadians.
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"Restoration of our ecosystems must be seen as a sensible and cost-effective investment in this planet's economic survival and growth, " writes Mr Benn.
The ever-sensible Swedes may smooth off some of the directive's rougher edges, but it is just luck that they are in charge of the EU at the moment.
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You'll have glanceable access to operating hours, surrounding traffic and recommended places -- that's not new, it's just surfaced in a more sensible way now.
Though the draft report highlighted South Africa's post-apartheid achievements, including its liberal constitution, sound economic policy, generally sensible new laws and free politics, it did not shy away from spelling out problems it has yet to solve: still brittle race relations, rising xenophobia (against immigrants from Zimbabwe, for instance) and the lingering reluctance of some whites to embrace the new South Africa.
If, on the other hand, this is the government's money and they're just a pass-through, it doesn't seem very sensible that banks should be making money that way.
Professor Alison Wolf, author of the government's review into vocational education, said the only sensible approach is to get a "broad-based education" equipped with skills and qualifications that employers recognize.
Mr Noda's ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) had recently proposed slapping another two yen tax on cigarettes and selling down the government's stake in Japan Tobacco, which many people saw as a sensible way for a debt-strapped government to help pay the huge costs of post-tsunami reconstruction.
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Their concern is that - whether justified or not, whether sensible or not - the SNP are offering precise, measurable benefits while Labour's offer is still somewhat nebulous.
ASER's survey also suggests that, with a few sensible steps, big improvements are possible even in state-run schools.
But sensible is not sexy, and did not win the hearts of Warner-Lambert's shareholders, who prefer Pfizer's siren song.
On this analysis, the government's silence on the euro does not betoken doubt about its poll-winning prowess, but is rather a sensible strategy designed to avoid unduly antagonising the voters.
All ex-prisoners find that - I did, Jeffrey will too - and it's quite a tough call getting back into the world of freedom and remaining balanced and sensible and just coping with a new life and a new world.
In America the new deficit-focused climate is preventing politicians from passing a temporary (and sensible) fiscal stimulus package without inducing them to tackle the sources of the country's huge medium-term deficit by, for instance, reforming social security.
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