Neither produced the results Washington had hoped for, though the Camp David talks pushed consideration of the most tendentious issues further along than expected.
The delay could push Senate consideration of the bill until after Thanksgiving, which could in turn make it very difficult for Congress to meet Mr. Obama's goal of signing a health bill into law by the end of this year.
The US army is making a big push towards consideration of megacities as possible battlefields of the future, according to Aughenbaugh.
Democrats, trying to shift the political dialogue from security to economic issues, repeatedly pushed for consideration of greater aid to people who were using up their 26 weeks of state aid.
"The Reader," which Harvey Weinstein pushed into consideration because he had a hunch, was among the five because Holocaust-theme movies always seem to catch the Academy's eye and because it represents a very specific idea — in this instance, by the director Stephen Daldry — of how a narrative should unfold on screen.
Which is forcing non-EU companies to rethink their data holdings to push privacy considerations forward.
But a Senate Republican leadership aide said economic issues would be the prime concern of Congress for months, pushing back consideration of gun control and immigration.
The rules the SEC is pushing for consideration were announced Thursday but have not yet been published in the official journal of the U.S. government, an action considered the initial step in the federal rule-making process.
The ozone hole was an urgent crisis that perhaps pushed other considerations out of our mind as we focused on the problem at hand.
In both sets of views, key actors and networks play important roles connecting researchers to policy-makers, pushing technical considerations in debates, and identifying windows of opportunity for policy change.
