Nevertheless, there is a general lack of detailed knowledge needed to address UFT issues by local policy-makers and substantial opportunities for improvement still persist.
The delivery of health services to rural communities is a long-standing challenge to policy makers, and a substantial literature documents the potential barriers to primary and specialty care among older rural populations [ 42, 43].
The private Medicare plans negotiate prices with drug makers and have secured substantial discounts.
The benefit is delivered by private insurers and their agents, pharmacy benefit managers, which negotiate with drug makers and have obtained substantial discounts in return for steering patients to particular products.
As policy makers and funders invest substantial resources on research networks, play active roles within those networks and press for evidence to inform policy, the boundaries between science and advocacy may be challenged.
Although champions are not the ultimate decision makers, and they rarely have substantial power within their organization, they have four things that make them irreplaceable in developing and closing the deal: credibility, connections, company intelligence, and motivation.
I thought this movie had its flaws, but it was the work of a deeply serious and substantial film-maker, perhaps the most important working in the US today.
However, as information and reporting requirements of individual departments of the Forest Service to the various levels of policy and decision makers are substantial, other sections in the Federal Forestry Department are also involved in data collection based on their respective specialised needs.
August brought no increase in the number of jobs in the United States, a signal that the economy has stalled and that inaction by policy makers carries substantial risk.
These were losing, bit by bit, to America's biggest aircraft-makers, which had the benefit of a much larger domestic market and substantial military orders.
And yet its Metacritic reception could cost its makers a substantial bonus payout, as Kotaku revealed on September 16th.
