And if Congress does not adopt the recommendations of the bipartisan committee studying deficit reduction, the mandated reductions in Pentagon spending would more than double, to about $900 billion, and fall on just about every category of defense spending.
First, on the education front, the United States' lead in years of schooling will erode as the longer school-year expectancies in Australia, the Netherlands and Canada spread through the population.Second, on income, the UNDP notes but does not adopt the recommendation of a commission including Joseph Stiglitz to use median, rather than mean, income figures.
However, when asked by one committee member whether he could reassure people in the US who had loans and mortgages linked to Libor that it was reliable, Mr Bernanke replied: "I cannot give them with any confidence as the BBA did not adopt [the recommendations].
(A 2006 report from the National Academies National Research Councill said that the most densely packed fuel in U.S. plant pools should be reracked in additional pools to lower the risk of fire in case the pools drained. But the regulatory commission did not adopt those recommendations).
Good advisers will not be upset when students do not adopt a recommendation, especially if there is a good reason for choosing an alternative.
But he did not adopt any of the recommendations of the bipartisan fiscal commission he appointed to figure out ways to bring the deficit under control.
This is in line with research showing that general practitioners who try to provide good diabetes care via the presentation of evidence-based recommendations experience considerable frustration when patients do not adopt or adhere to these recommendation [ 11].
This is basically what happened to South Korea, which unlike Latin America, did not adopt Washington's neoliberal policy recommendations.
Health Canada, that country's counterpart to the F.D.A., did not adopt many of the group's recommendations, but it has put in place new rules limiting caffeine levels in cans of energy drinks to 180 milligrams.
How exactly that money was divided is secret, as is even such basic information as the salaries paid to top executives — yet another example of the lack of transparency at FIFA, which worked with a nonprofit, One World Trust, in 2007 to evaluate its accountability standards but then did not adopt many of the group's recommendations.
