Critics inside and outside the Senate say the provision's call for "ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of scientific information relied upon by such agency" is both broad and vague, and is designed to gum up regulatory work at the federal agencies.
In particular, two of the eight targets call for ensuring universal primary education and promoting gender equality – including narrowing the gender gap in schools – by the year 2015.
The deteriorating job situation also calls for ensuring that states do not have to make unduly burdensome cuts in their own budgets.
To address the current flooding, the Environmental Protection Commission and the Planning and Zoning Commission drafted a five-year plan in April that calls for ensuring that existing culverts and catch basins are properly maintained and fixing areas prone to flooding, starting with Stony Brook, where Mrs. Wood lives.
It calls for ensuring that student debt is affordable by allowing borrowers to cap their payments on federal student loans at ten percent of their total monthly income.
He also called for ensuring complete newsroom integration, putting a senior journalist familiar with the genre in charge of the enterprise, starting with a small team that includes a data editor and designer who knows how to program, using free or cheap tools to treat and visualize data, and, to start slowly before taking on big projects.
The MDGs, a set of internationally recognized targets for reducing poverty worldwide, calls for ensuring universal primary education by the year 2015.
UNICEF calls for ensuring Turkmenistan children's safety on roads ASHGABAT, 5 September 2013 – At a conference to mark the start of a month-long campaign on road safety in Turkmenistan, UNICEF called for ensuring safety of children who are the most vulnerable road users.
Upon graduation, the recipients of SFS scholarships become part of the Federal Cyber Service of IT specialists, called Cyber Corps, responsible for ensuring the protection of the federal government's information infrastructure.
"Governments find it a tricky balancing act to manage pleasing donors with what their citizens are calling for, and ensuring that they are paying particular attention to marginalised communities who might have even specific needs to be met," she said.
Innovative thinking may be called for to ensure that these drivers do not derail the research programme, or indeed threaten the underlying scientific method and rigour.
