On the other hand there is ITV, as chairman Archie Norman observed, with a laudable strategic plan set in 2007 by his predecessor Michael Grade – based around targets to boost production to over a £1bn annually and online revenue to £150m this year – on which it comprehensively failed to deliver as the company was engulfed the worst advertising recession for decades.
The seemingly laudable plan is part of the Bush administration's rush to show measurable progress in Afghanistan -- by number of schools and clinics built, miles of road paved and tons of wheat seed distributed.
Although both staff retention and mechanisms to address quality of care are highlighted in various policy documents (49, 56, 57), a key challenge in South Africa has been in translating laudable plans and strategies into action (58, 59).
Only time will tell, however, whether and how these laudable plans will actually be put into practice.
The book suggested that family planning was a laudable effort, and that sexual gratification – without the goal of reproduction – was not immoral.
A spokesman for House Speaker John A. Boehner said that streamlining the government was a laudable goal and that Republicans would take a look at the plan.
That was a laudable Bloomberg goal all along, and the completion of the extension as planned in 2013, even with just one strategic stop, will make it closer to reality.
MCTS workplans were envisioned to replace existing service delivery planning tools among FHWs and block officials, and while replacing the plethora of planning tools in India with a standard format was a laudable idea, doing so without first improving data quality would lead to severe disruptions in MCH service delivery.
After a laudable multi-month effort seeking direction from stakeholders, Governor Pat McCrory and officials from the Department of Health and Human Services have begun to take their plan public.
A laudable sentiment, perhaps.
