But it is possible to advance some of the more sensible goals of Europe's agriculture policy, like land conservation and environmentalism, without losing touch with reality.
And there is another sort of club, with a large, ill-defined membership, and sensible goals but little power to correct wrongs except through peer pressure.In a cold, unsentimental world, the second type of club might seem doomed.
And both candidates want to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases a sensible goal, but one that is likely to make energy more expensive, not cheaper.Just before Congress shut up shop, a bipartisan group of ten senators suggested a compromise that would allow drilling off Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia, while also raising taxes on oil firms.
Unfortunately, the sensible goal of rebalancing towards net exports can lead to dubious policy prescriptions.
I believe that to some extent the Obama White Paper has set a sensible goal of developing some Regulatory Dictator (be that a person or organization) who could have the authority to be the finger over the button, and the power to push it if needed.
I think that clarifying the taxonomy and evolutionary mode of DNA phages is a sensible goal, and that this article addresses the problem in an appropriate way.
Progressive goal: send everyone to college (despite lots of evidence this is not a sensible goal).
On the theoretical side, we aim to generate known generic patterns of crime, but the rare nature of burglary events (and multitude of factors not considered) also means that a comprehensive model may not be a sensible goal.
What do you think is a sensible goal?
This sensible goal, however, is not as simple as building a superpipe and bolting a bunch of rails into the hill.
