Mr. Drysdale, the ANU professor, said a decisive DPJ victory would be good for Japan's confidence.
One of the sharpest appointments yet made by the incoming president may support decisive action: Dawn Johnsen, a law professor and former Clinton administration official who last week was chosen to run the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice.
"Grillo will play a decisive role," Roberto D'Alimonte, a politics professor at Rome's LUISS university, told AFP news agency.
"Here, the difference between O'Connor and Alito, is widely expected to be decisive," said Erwin Chemerinsky, a law professor at Duke University.
Two years later, the physicist, physiologist, and psychologist, Hermann von Helmholtz[9] received the call to Heidelberg as a professor of physiology, a decisive moment for Wundt's career; the two worked in the same laboratory until 1871 (Boring, 1950: 319, 319).
"We shouldn't expect, nor will we get, this decisive clarity," said Fiona A. Miller, associate professor of health policy, management and evaluation at the University of Toronto.
"Frequently, in statewide elections, the suburban vote is decisive in selecting a winner," Brian J. Nickerson, assistant professor of Political Science and a coordinator of the survey, said.
At a session of the Academic Council, the faculty governance body, Brodhead was roundly assailed for not taking decisive action against the team, and one professor stood and urged him to confess publicly that Duke was a racist and misogynist institution.
"For that reason, this is a decisive moment in the litigation," said William Kovacic, a professor at the George Washington University law school.
"The Fed is a monarchy, whereas the E.C.B. is like a college," said Professor Lane, referring to Mr. Greenspan's decisive role.
