Within January's employment report, construction was one of the more encouraging areas, adding jobs in each of the last four months.
One of the encouraging areas of change is in public transit.
If the piece used language that was optimistic or encouraging of the area, it was categorized as "positive".
The Clinton program also would dedicate additional funding and resources to Obama administration policies in areas like building broadband networks in rural areas, encouraging computer science education for elementary and high school students, and job training in technology fields.
In March 2011, when I reported on the return of tourism to northern Sri Lanka, I received a stern rebuke from John Mann MP complaining that encouraging tourism to areas that still suffered from death squads was "ignorant propaganda".
Media outlets in Europe, Japan, the Philippines, Latin America and even the United States may venture into various gray areas, encouraging companies to pay for journalists' travel or underwriting favorable reporting or agreeing to take out advertising packages in exchange for coverage.
The program offers what amounts to subsidized coverage, and according to its critics, and also to some of its supporters, the N.F.I.P. has had the perverse effect of encouraging rebuilding in areas where homes and businesses probably shouldn't have been built in the first place.
Encouraging diversification between areas will almost certainly be challenged in the court of public opinion.
This echoes MIT's pioneering Media Lab, which was set up in 1985 and has long been encouraging entrepreneurship in areas ranging from wearable computing to stackable electric cars for cities.
The CSRC now vows to focus on three areas: encouraging small investors to sue when defrauded, possibly in class-action suits; ensuring that all listed companies not just financial firms adopt better accounting standards; and "enforcement, enforcement and enforcement," says Cha.
