"It demonstrates that with new technology, tough regulations and common-sense management, we can protect wildlife and produce energy," Mr. Pfeifle said.
This is not about computer science or technology, but about common sense and management.
A spokesman for the American Forest and Paper Association said the proposal would simply restore common sense to management of national forests.
"It's hard to see any common sense in management decisions that award hundreds of millions in bonuses when their organizations lost more than $100 billion in a year," Mr. Grassley said in a statement.
The company has found that it could substantially improve on its current level of performance by learning what the best plants were achieving and how all its plants compared, emulating how those best plants were achieving superior results, and by adding a measure of common sense and management skill., Perhaps in the long term, it could even exceed the current benchmarks.
Better modeling, more wisely applied, would have helped, Mr. Lindsey said, but so would have common sense in senior management.
She raised the money largely from men, and the experience taught her something, she says, about applying common sense to corporate management.
A merger between Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority is expected, while ending oversight of the NHS by the zealots at the Competition and Markets Authority would bring some badly needed common sense to the management of competition in the NHS and go some way to rebutting the toxic accusation of privatising the health service.
Instead, use common sense and good management skills to put the computer in its place as one of the many items in your daily life.
"The proposal will restore common sense to the forest management process," said Michael Klein, a spokesman for the association.
