It was a measure of how little was agreed upon that at a dinner on Thursday night, at the end of meetings, the Chinese and Americans spent much of their time praising their cooperation on a single project: Building a Chinese garden at the national arboretum.
But what was striking was how much they agreed upon -- if not in what they said, at least in what they ignored.
When talking to first time, early stage entrepreneurs about raising money, often the piece that I find they are most interested in is how a valuation will be agreed upon – and how to get it as high as possible.
This process often occurs in stages, which include problem identification and issue recognition (i.e., focusing on getting issues onto the policy agenda), and policy formulation, which includes actor involvement in formulating policy, how policies are arrived at, agreed upon, and how they are communicated.
Some of the disagreement is based, rather, on differences over what evidence is appropriate, how much weight should be given to the evidence where it can be agreed upon, how priorities and choices should be made among the vast range of possible values and so on.
It basically reflects how consistent the evaluation results obtained from multiple interobservers are and how well they are agreed upon.
The code is "intended to be specific enough to achieve complete harmonization on issues where uniformity is required, yet general enough in other areas to permit flexibility on how agreed-upon antidoping principles are implemented".
The senators proposing an immigration overhaul might also welcome the clarity of such a statistic, given that they have not yet agreed upon how to measure border security.
The agency then will decide which recommendations to adopt and how to implement the agreed upon changes.
How can definitions commonly agreed upon that pertain to biobanks and their data be devised when diverse means of definition exist?
Although Democritus provides a remarkable anticipation of the modern doctrine of eliminativist materialism, we sorely miss his account of how conventions themselves the consciously agreed upon means of common reference emerge from the dancing atoms.
