This is a decisive result, and a triumph both for the study's organisers, and for Julio Montaner of the University of British Columbia, who pioneered this approach and has been pushing for its implementation for years.
But beyond that, there are a couple ideas that are in the works (even if they're far-off glimmers of experimentation that won't see implementation for years).
"The answer has to be to run services in different ways," says Nigel Edwards, the confederation's policy director.The Royal College of Physicians advocates delaying the directive's implementation for three to six years.
The ELC has now been ratified by many countries, which have been working on its implementation for up to several years.
But after airlines and governments in the United States, India and China went ballistic — filing lawsuits, threatening trade actions and prompting legislation — the European Commission said it would delay full implementation for just one year to let the naysayers accede to an alternative global plan to reduce airlines' carbon footprint.
While the enactment of a prescription drug plan by President Bush and the Republican majority is politically expedient and serves to fulfill a campaign promise, delaying implementation for several years, until 2006, does little to help Medicare recipients currently in desperate need of relief.
One element of this two-state concept is that some part of East Jerusalem might serve as the capital of this Palestinian state - a solution that has managed to escape implementation for many years.
Clarín secured an injunction staying the law's implementation for three years while it sought judicial annulment of four clauses it claims are unconstitutional.
As a result of PSM implementation for 19 years, chemical accident prevention system has been stabilized and various kinds of effectiveness and desirable customer satisfaction have been made.
The country cases were selected taking into account a number of criteria, e.g. the maturity of the HSTF project or activity (minimum implementation for two years), the wealth of experiences and the chances of their generating interesting lessons, as well as a good balance between more or less stable development settings and unstable contexts as well as between geographical regions.
