Specifically, it failed to provide a fact-based analysis justifying its actions.
We feel it in terms of the organizations that are struggling so intensely, but if a fact-based analysis finds what people know intuitively, then you can address this".
Until recently a fact-based analysis of these numbers would have taken months of pulling data from spreadsheets from hundreds of schools, departments and government agencies.
What we need the Independent Commission on Banking to do is to take a measured, fact-based analysis of the industry.
First, a thorough, fact-based analysis of what's knowable about the future is the best defense against getting blindsided later.
Mark Murphy, executive director of the foundation, who credited Mr. Diner with the vision for the center, said, "There is a critical role to be played by an independent, credible, fact-based analysis of social issues and policy options" that urban decision makers face.
"We have set a real standard for fact-based analysis and established a very high level of credibility," said Turner, who also chairs the Financial Services Authority.
Today it has 600-plus members who have put on scores of events focused on building energy expertise among M.I.T. students and faculty, and "fact-based analysis," including a trip to Saudi Arabia.
"It's feasible, if they do the work, and show their work, and they explain, with serious, fact-based analysis, why they're choosing a different outcome, that the courts would uphold it," Mr. Squillace said.
In 2004, Gore cheered liberals when he lashed at President Bush for allegedly falling captive to right-wing special interests and taking flight from "fact-based analysis". If the book strikes a chord, it will produce new momentum for Gore to make another bid for the White House, presumably fueled in large part by anti-Iraq-war Democrats.
An energy executive has to understand fact-based analysis and foreign contexts, noted Suzanne Maloney, a top Brookings Institution expert on Iran, in a Twitter post.
