She grew up in a household in which the Times was a kind of secular religion and an authority; to achieve the editorship and then to lose it was an enormous and disorienting blow.
Obama's decision to circumvent Congress and use his executive authority to achieve emissions cuts have revived expectations, said Saleemul Huq, a fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development.
An agreement between a government authority and one or more private parties, as well as a unilateral commitment that is recognized by the public authority, to achieve environmental objectives or to improve environmental performance beyond compliance.
"With each state exercising its independent authority to achieve low-cost greenhouse gas emissions reductions, the RGGI market-based program has widespread support across the region and will continue," the statement said.
Stymied in Congress, Obama has used executive authority to achieve partial versions of what he'd hoped to achieve through legislation.
In a March 2009 poll commissioned by J Street, 60% of American Jews opposed Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank, 76% supported a peace agreement on the 1967 borders with negotiated land swaps (the position recently articulated by President Obama), and 69% supported the U.S. working with a unified Fatah-Hamas Palestinian Authority government to achieve a peace agreement with Israel.
"The main thing is to convince the Syrian opposition to come to the negotiating table with representatives of the authorities, and to achieve a peaceful solution to the crisis," the adviser, Sergei E. Prikhodko, told the Itar-Tass news agency.
The other was the Palestinian Authority's negotiations to achieve a cease-fire with Hamas.
It's not unreasonable for a local authority to aspire to achieve a 10% saving through CPCE," he says.
The idea, Mr. Walder explained, is that the authority's attempts to achieve a "gold standard" in its endeavors -- like putting off piecemeal repairs in favor of a complete overhaul of a station -- ultimately resulted in worse service for riders.
