"It enables the systems and a human to discuss a plan before a task - such as dismantling a nuclear plant - is undertaken, " said Dr Vasconcelos.

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One of Clinton's most famous blunders involved the task force that he established to formulate a health-care plan under the leadership of first lady Hillary Clinton.

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The bipartisan Bowles-Simpson commission proposed such a plan as did the Bipartisan Policy Center task force on which I served.

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Last year it faced the tricky task of touting an artist, Plan B, who had made an abrupt transition from hard-core rapper to besuited soul singer.

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The UNESCO-Microsoft Task Force on Higher Education and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will create a strategic plan of action to identify how ICT can be used by governments as a catalyst for change.

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