So instead of treating the criticisms seriously, and replying to them seriously, the administration, with one or two honourable exceptions, began a campaign to discredit Mr Clarke.Dick Cheney, the vice-president, suggested that he was doing it in revenge for not getting a promotion.
A fast-growing population means there are more poor slash-and-burn farmers, and more people living in marginal areas liable to flooding or landslides.President Arroyo reacted by ordering the suspension of all logging, legal or illegal, although subsequently exceptions began to emerge.
Banks, particularly in South Korea, have, with a few exceptions, begun assessing credit risk instead of making loans because a government official or sister company told them to, and conglomerates are learning that the bottom line, not the top one, drives their stock price.
Then, once we believe something to be true, our confirmation bias makes us discount exceptions, even when exceptions begin to outnumber the rule.
Every piece of mail placed in her mailbox must be read, without exception, beginning to end.
The climax was no exception, beginning by the sumptuous splendour of Louis XIV's formal gardens at Versailles and closing below Napoleon's arch.
We're endlessly fascinated by the real story behind the Brontës' fiction – namely how a strangely isolated childhood on the remote Yorkshire moors could have fed such imaginative passion and formidable literary skill – and Harman is no exception, beginning her book with the 27-year-old Charlotte in Brussels about to "transmute" unrequited love, loneliness and despair "into art".
Zambia was a marked exception, beginning with nationwide implementation of certain reforms in all districts, but then taking longer to extend the reform to other aspects, such as staffing, where more preparation was needed.
Prior approval from the U.S. Department of Education is required for exceptions to beginning level study and for all FLAS language study abroad.
However, under the Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act which passed earlier this year, senior staffers must file reports on personal transactions valued over $1,000 within 45 days (with some exceptions) -- beginning July 3.
He created clear formal policies to replace informal exceptions and began discussing them all openly in large meetings.
