The goals of the directive are laudable: to "strike a balance between timeliness and accuracy, prevent early access to information that may affect financial and commodity markets, and preserve the distinction between the policy-neutral release of data by statistical agencies and their interpretation by policy officials".
There is no simple answer to the question of how to balance the laudable principle of co-creation with the need for robust and transparent governance of research on human participants.
However, this otherwise laudable strategy must be balanced with ethical and legal obligations to obtain adequately informed consent from individual participants [ 6].
Return on equity in 1999 was a stellar 28.6% –all the more laudable in view of the company's conservative balance sheet.
Beyond being an inherently good thing, efforts like this may balance out some of the less laudable aspects of the community and give weight to Reddit's claims to more than just a for-profit company.
While EPA's objectives seem laudable in several respects, the agency will need to balance transparency with legal protections that may apply to disclosure of the information.
The objective is laudable, but there is a critical element missing from the mayor's presentation: a balance between the pressures of economic development and the need for environmental protection, an essential ingredient of all sustainability planning.
The laudable aim of this week's energy white paper termed a "milestone" in policy by Tony Blair is to balance long-term energy needs with environmental goals.
So why is there such a lack of balance in the debate around Prevent, introduced as part of the government's post-9/11 counter-terrorism strategy, a laudable, voluntary diversionary scheme that is the envy of many other nations?
