Composed mostly of biologists and ethicists, they have served to familiarize the public with new advances and have developed guidance on contentious issues like genetic engineering, human cloning and research on humans.
When executives make the hard calls and communicate them through the ranks, they provide clear guidance on the contentious issues likely to arise when executing strategy.
The guidance, the most contentious issue facing the agency, had strong support from Mr. Gensler and Bart Chilton, a fellow Democratic commissioner at the agency who also supported completing the guidance by the Friday deadline.
The new spending measure also drops language that would have tied NSF's grantsmaking process to a contentious bill that passed the House earlier this year setting out policy guidance for the agency.
I.R.S. rule making has been especially contentious, including decades of efforts by the I.R.S. general counsel's office to keep secret the guidance issued to agency executives and field personnel.
"Some of the current Administration's more contentious policies were instead implemented pursuant to discretionary agency directives and guidance documents". CRS advises members of Congress on policy and law.
Just when it looked as if he had struck a truce with opponents in a 2-year battle over legislation passed this spring by the House of Representatives that provides guidance to the National Science Foundation (NSF), Smith yesterday reintroduced the most contentious portion of that bill as standalone legislation.
1 Despite this guidance, lowering the diagnostic threshold for troponin remains a highly contentious issue, with clinicians uncertain as to whether the benefits of improved sensitivity will outweigh problems that might arise from reduced specificity.
The guidance leaves it to each individual university to decide what period of notice is required before a contentious meeting is allowed to go ahead.
I had a good five years of sex-ed and parental guidance of the non-Crash variety under my belt by the time I finally saw Cronenberg's contentious breakthrough feature and his even more contentious follow-up, so I thought I was pretty well-versed in risks involved with having sex.
Despite this guidance, the issue of when disclosure to family members might be acceptable (or even desirable) is still highly contentious and subject to legal challenge.
