Then the columnist, aware of the power of access, gave the job a prestigious boost: "He's also a press secretary without portfolio, a policy adviser and a diplomat who keeps the locals from pestering the boss".
I'm convinced that in the world's poorest places, the transformative power of access to affordable energy — enabling everything from homework to better health to a home business using a sewing machine — trumps concerns about climate implications.
That there is no effective change strategy that involves one set of people in power preaching lifestyle change to people whose lives are already constrained by hardship, by social deprivation, by job insecurity, by declining real wages, while the prevailing inequalities of power, of access, of income go unaddressed.
So Schwab is a prime mover whose power is the power of access.
He or she has the power of access to the president -- anyone wanting time in the Oval Office has to get the chief of staff's permission first.
One reason is the naivete/ignorance of legislators who swallowed the spooks' line that metadata-hoovering was just an updating of older powers to access logs of (analogue) telephone calls.
The questions you raise in your options for how a president should use his powers of information access and analysis to fight back against Muslim fundamentalists seems like the better informed one to consider as a free and independent citizenry.
The UK home secretary has called on the international community to "destroy ISIL (The Islamic State)" as she proposed a raft of powers to access private communications data and curb extremists' freedom of movement and expression.
The need to optimise the power consumption of access points and routers for rural applications is widely acknowledged [15] and is the focus of continued research [16].
The expansion of police powers to access web browsing history as part of their investigations follows pressure from the police, and the use of these powers does not need the "double-lock" ministerial authorisation.
