Cast your mind back to the State Of The Union addresses of the past, and you're more likely to remember them as the settings for weird distractions -- like South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie" outburst -- or the odd priorities advanced in the speech, like cracking down on steroids in baseball or thwarting the advance of "human-animal hybrids".
While Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and both George Bushes advanced top priorities in tandem with the opposition party, this was the first time in Mr. Obama's presidency that he forged a major bipartisan compromise on a signature issue — and it was Mr. McConnell's first time at a major White House bill signing under this president.
This should be a priority as you advance in the game.
An important 2007 Lancet article by Jeremy Shiffman and Stephanie Smith, examining the role of the safe motherhood advocacy community in advancing global priority for maternal health, argued that difficulties relating to the actors and the nature of safe motherhood itself meant that safe motherhood was still in its infancy as a global health initiative.
He also serves as a deputy division chief, working across NCCOS laboratories to advance priorities in marine spatial ecology.
Many reasons explain this "rampant administrative blight," but the net result is that university budget priorities shift from the academic gold standard of tenure-based faculty teaching and research to other activities and burgeoning education bureaucracies that may or may not advance the priority goals embodied in higher learning.
ORAU provides innovative scientific and technical solutions for the Department of Energy and other federal agencies to advance national priorities in science, health, education and national security.
She has been hugely successful in advancing progressives' priorities over the last year and a half.
"It is not going to titillate the public," McConnell said of doing all 12 appropriations bills, but it would be one "obvious step" where Republicans could advance their priorities in a divided government.
Workshop participants also identified a number of elements that were critical to the design of the priority setting process itself: (4) The executive decision-making group should be multidisciplinary and its role should be clearly and explicitly defined in advance of priority setting.
The other problem is the temptation to play the U.N. game of compromise and "consensus," in which member states horse-trade in hopes of advancing pet priorities.
