Layzer's second book, "Natural Experiments" (MIT Press, 2008), examined whether recent approaches to conservation across the U.S. have been effective; she concluded that some of these programs are less likely to produce environmental improvements than policies enacted through traditional top-down political means.
Over the past 30 years or so, many jurisdictions across the globe have enacted major improvements in formal legal protections against violence once considered private.
While the agency has proposed and/or enacted important improvements to the rules that govern some of those activities, it has not modernized the regulations that govern offshore oil and gas planning, lease sales, or the review and permitting of exploratory drilling.
AMP has sought to thwart Allied's offer in order to allow company executives time to show investors some results from a recently enacted profit-improvement plan.
Mr. Gray announced that Kaya Henderson, the deputy chancellor who is a close associate of Ms. Rhee's, would take over as interim chancellor, and he pledged that school improvement policies Ms. Rhee enacted would continue after he takes office.
In the above examples the instrument transformed the way in which the actors involved thought about and enacted the improvement situation, and their social life in general.
While commissioners would have been able to recommend street improvements, he said, enacting such a requirement would have still required council approval.
In July 1996, Governor Chiles established the Florida Building Codes Study Commission, with the purpose of assessing the buildings codes at the time, as well as enacting improvements and reform to the system.
As a native New Yorker I applaud the quality-of-life improvements that Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has enacted.
They will also have an opportunity to approve a $3.8 billion bond issue that, if enacted, would speed improvements in New York City's mass transit system and upgrade highways and rail links crucial to the upstate economy.
