Word: implementable
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...management by policymakers. Linsky and Neustadt, in defending the concept of improved press management, offered curious suggestions to policymakers: 1) "frame the issues" for the journalist, 2) use the press merely to communicate with other departments (i.e. inter-office memoranda), and 3) consider the press a strategic instrument to implement policies. The spirit of these suggestions struck chords of discontent with Hunt. In fact, they clashed with several values which Hunt later defended: the autonomy of the press, the adversarial (not cooperative) relationship between journalists and policymakers, and the "willingness to print the news," in most cases, without regard...
...same would now be true of federal government employees had a Federal District Court ruling not preempted President Reagan's executive order of September 15, to implement drug testing of federal employees...
While a few percentage points in test accuracy entail the prospect of tens of thousands of false positive results and falsely labelled individuals, screening suffers from another kind of subjectivity. It is politically easiest to propose or implement screening of groups that are already defined and over which the government or an employer already has direct power--as in, for instance, the AIDS testing of ROTC cadets, the drug testing of federal employees or the testing of the employees of an estimated one quarter of the nation's largest private firms. There is no medical reason for such choices...
...appears to be at odds with the "strengthened internal promotion system" for junior faculty who show excellence in research and teaching recommended in a milestone report made last April by Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence. Even as Spence pleas for more time to implement his recommendations, those very junior faculty are--to put it mildly--slipping through his fingers...
...state could take over local authorities that do not implement the regulation or impose a freeze on filling vacancies. But sanctions would not be imposed, even if goals are not met for years, if communities in good faith seek minority tenants. No tenants will be evicted to make room for minorities...