"That's why I have been clear that delivering these savings should focus around bearing down on waste, administration, overheads and poor performance".
As the clock winds down on his administration, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is moving quickly to ensure that his educational legacy lasts until long after he is gone, or at least to make it difficult for his successor to undo it.
If the Republican candidates want to exert their influence to stop Iran's drive toward a nuclear weapon, and keep oil-market anxiety to a minimum, they'll need to do the unthinkable in an election season: support Obama by quietly doubling down on the administration's current oil-market sanctions while continuing to ask tough questions about his broader Iran policy.
President Donald Trump amplified Houlton's tweet, doubling down on the administration's go-to "fake news" retort.
During his address to Congress, Trump doubled down on his administration's uncompromising immigration policies and said it was his duty was "to defend Americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities and their right to the American Dream.
In the longer term, meta-level, global governance systems need to be developed, which incorporate information technology or e-governance solutions that can reward new types of contributions and cut down on unnecessary administration.
In 1991, when Iraqi Scud missiles rained down on Tel Aviv, the administration of the first President Bush urged Israel not to strike back so as to preserve the coalition of Arab states fighting Iraq.
"As the clock counts down on the Obama administration, the need for commutations of these nonviolent drug offenders – and many more like them – is more important than ever," said Jessica Jackson Sloan, National Director of #cut50, which advocates clemency as part of an overall mission to cut the US prison population in half.
The days are winding down on the outgoing administration -- Only eight years?
