But Mr. Gore often turns to them more as resources to press forward with his own decisions rather than as principal decision makers.
His conclusions directly contradict accounts in testimony, memoirs and myriad media interviews by the principal decision makers — Henry M. Paulson Jr., the former Treasury secretary; Ben S. Bernanke, then the Fed chairman; and Timothy F. Geithner, who was president of the New York Fed.
"The various committees with proper oversight of these matters in Congress have yet to hear from the principal decision makers who responded to what occurred September 11 and 12 when American lives were placed in peril.
(FGD no. 2) Men are the principal decision makers in the family.
For instance, focus groups and interviews with women and healthcare providers in this study revealed that in many instances husbands, mothers-in-law, and TBAs were the principal decision makers, especially when an obstetric emergency set in.
Here is how the Jets' principal decision-makers reacted to the trade.
One of the principal decision-makers is Reynold Levy, the president of Lincoln Center.
Rather, they represent a summary count of statements that women made in both FGDs and IDIs when they were asked to indicate the principal decision-maker(s) in episodes where a woman was unable to access or use skilled maternal healthcare services during her last pregnancy.
Table 5 presents a count of statements women made in relation to the principal decision-maker(s) in episodes where a woman was unable to access or use maternity care services during her last pregnancy.> Note that the frequencies and percentages reported in Table 5 are not representing the number of women who took part in the study.
When modeling a decision problem using the influence diagram framework, the quantitative part rests on two principal components: probabilities for representing the decision maker's uncertainty about the domain and utilities for representing preferences.
