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...just did, that it's going to sell military hardware to Taiwan. Nor is there anything new about Beijing treating this announcement as proof that the U.S. lacks respect for Chinese sovereignty and for the principles of the "one China" policy that, since the 1970s, has provided the groundwork for relations between...
...legislation for the savings it could achieve. One of his critics is Peter Orszag, his immediate predecessor at the CBO and the current head of the White House Office of Management and Budget. At one point, Orszag - who devoted much of his tenure at the CBO to laying the groundwork for health care reform - went so far as to accuse his former agency of having "overstepped" its mission by displaying a tendency toward "exaggerating costs and underestimating savings." Among economists, those are fighting words. They may also reflect the difference between one who works for the President...
Thus considerable support exists for artistically inclined students, and the Task Force has laid down the groundwork for slow but effective expansion of this trove of resources. But its endeavors rely on student engagement as much as the administration’s initiative...
...level of knowledge in accounting, law, and marketing. Her previous experience in marketing was as the executive editor at Freeze magazine, where she started the Mr. Harvard Freshman contest. She explained that this marketing experience helped her see that her passion lay in business, a realization that lay the groundwork for the direction she is taking today...
Step 2: Diagram Your Day To lay the groundwork for change, job-crafting participants assemble diagrams detailing their workday activities. The first objective is to develop new insights about what you actually do at work. Then you can dream up fresh ways to integrate what the job-crafting exercise calls your "strengths, motives and passions" into your daily routine. You convert task lists into flexible building blocks. The end result is an "after" diagram that can serve as a map for specific changes. (See "Out of Work in America...