Word: implementation
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...leadership needs to implement a mechanism for arranging student services within the UC’s current two-committee framework. It does not need to bring back the CLC, nor does it need another third arm such as an "Outreach and Services Committee"—an idea which was proposed and rejected last spring. We do not know precisely how the UC ought to handle soliciting and selecting bids from third parties. It could be done by the UC’s Finance Committee (FiCom), or by a FiCom subcommittee, or by the president and vice president themselves...
However, the committee did not let Yum! Brands—which owns KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut—off the hook. The committee supported a proposal to implement stricter animal welfare standards and to eliminate excessive use of antibiotics...
...week after undergraduates overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on administrators to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, supporters of the proposal are left with the daunting task of figuring out how to implement the mandate from the student body. The resolution, which passed by a nearly 9-to-1 margin, calls on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to reduce its emissions to a level 11 percent lower than its 1990 output by 2020. That’s just a one percent larger reduction than Yale has committed to make in the same time period. But it?...
...commission itself does not imagine that its ideas will be embraced with speedy enthusiasm. "This kind of change," said Tucker, "will take 15 years of hard work to implement." The point, says Klein, is not whether the commission got every detail right, but that the nation needs "a significant reconceptualization." After decades of flawed and piecemeal reform, it's hard to argue with that...
...examples, fertility has been declining in industrialized countries over the past three decades. And if history has any relevant lessons to teach us, one of the few is that populations are extremely resistant to government efforts at encouraging more births. Leaders from Augustus Caesar to Stalin have tried to implement pro-natal programs, and all have been complete failures...