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...hypothetical scenarios about fictional apartments and cars can tell researchers only so much. "People are not really engaging in these decisions," Newell says. Even so, researchers understand the pathways in which conscious decisions are made, but have no way of understanding the unconscious, so he says, "It's overly bold to recommend that as a way of making decisions...
...make oil and gas unnecessary - is adherence to the best safety standards for new exploration. After all, keeping the oil and gas in the ground may be better for the environment and the climate, but it seems unlikely. In April 2007 Rafael Correa, the President of Ecuador, made a bold proposal: to permanently forgo excavation of the country's largest untapped oil reserve, located beneath a national park, if the international community would compensate the country for its lost revenue. No one has taken him up on the offer...
...Some Taiwan people tell us that you are not bold and decisive enough, that you are too nice a guy for the rough and tumble of Taiwan politics. I admit I'm a nice guy, but I'm not just nice. I'm also bold and decisive. Otherwise I could not have done so much in 21/2 months...
...boosted support for Pakistan's government in deference to State Department diplomats, a strategy that involves a renewed effort to capture Osama bin Laden. The shifts amount to an unmistakable effort to clean up President Bush's foreign policy legacy before he exits the stage. "This is bold strategic diplomacy," says former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein, "with an eye to the history books...
...part because there was a risk that voters might see the trip not as an audition but as a bold act of presumption, Obama spent much of the Iraq and Afghanistan portions of the trip joined at the hip by Democratic Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a West Pointer, and Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a Vietnam vet and onetime ally of McCain's. The sidemen, plus the images of combat-hardened troops greeting him, may have helped the campaign present Obama as a plausible Commander in Chief...