David Leam, infrastructure director at lobby group London First, said the government needed "to show backbone", adding: "We need a clear timetable for airport expansion as soon as possible, because the decision to greenlight a new runway won't get any easier".
"The president's view was that they need to understand that what our policy is publicly and what we are saying publicly is actually what we mean," a senior White House official said, explaining Trump's decision to greenlight a Pence meeting with the North Koreans.
Telling a policy-minded story in five minutes is different from, say, directing a Channing Tatum action movie, and crafting a pilot for consideration by Amazon's users (the site uses consumer voting as a factor in its greenlight decisions) is a bit of a different undertaking than rallying financiers around your feature script.
The White House has not indicated whether it would veto legislation to greenlight the stalled project, and has repeatedly postponed a decision now that the pipeline is tied up in a court battle.
Attempting to stave off that backlash, a coalition of Metro directors says it will propose a compromise that would greenlight some improvements, including longer ramps and new interchanges, but delay a decision on the widening.
In most cases, the decision for a studio to greenlight a superhero movie is the closest thing to a slam-dunk the movie business has to offer.
The pair's pattern is that big decisions - such as whether to greenlight a project - are made jointly, after which they work individually on movies.
But by leveraging the data collected around members' viewing habits, data scientists can build taste-cluster and demand-prediction models to inform the human decision-making process of whether to greenlight a new show.
Right now there isn't one Latino that can Greenlight a movie.
"There is no black [person] in Hollywood that can greenlight a movie," Sharpton said.
