This chapter is part of a broader exercise to determine the predictive capability of several currently accepted composite failure criteria.
The latter included a ruling from the Supreme Court that came as recently as 2012, which said, "A principal feature of the removal system is the broad discretion exercised by immigration officials.
Yet his concept of the New Cinema was far broader than exercises in pure form, and here, too, he proved prophetic: in effect, Mekas defined as "New" anything that struck him as aesthetically new.
The paper's second section is a broad statistical exercise that asks whether Argentina's economic growth between 1900 and 2000 can be "explained" by the country's attributes as of 1900.
Lessons for Foresight practitioners: Running high-creativity research and innovation activities within broader Foresight exercises could be beneficial in many ways, such as to improve the quality of findings of the Foresight process and their socio-economic acceptance by the stakeholders and the general public.
As the Supreme Court has said, "the broad discretion exercised by immigration officials" is "[a] principal feature of the removal system".
"A principal feature of the removal system is the broad discretion exercised by immigration officials," wrote U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli in the administration's appeal.
"The Supreme Court recognized just three and a half years ago that a principal feature of the removal system is the broad discretion exercised by immigration officials, including whether it makes sense to pursue removal at all," said a statement from Brianne Gorod, an appellate lawyer with the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center, which filed a brief in the Texas case.
"Aliens may be removed" if they entered the country illegally and committed crimes, said Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, but "a principal feature of the removal system is the broad discretion exercised by immigration officials.... Federal officials, as an initial matter, must decide whether it makes sense to pursue removal at all.
Whether such an approach can be taken with fungi remains to be tested, but there is clearly potential to undertake a broad screening exercise to identify the physiological and morphological traits that may contribute to regulation of key ecosystem processes.
