But he defended his own actions, particularly in the telecom scandal, noting that his office had made inquiries into whether 2G spectrum should have been auctioned off — as later happened in the sale of 3G spectrum — rather than allocated.
C. Boyden Gray, White House counsel in the first Bush administration and a strong advocate of the acid rain cap-and-trade program, said that opponents were largely correct in labeling the Waxman-Markey plan a tax, because so many of the pollution allowances were given away to industry rather than allocated based on past emissions.
Recruits are rather arbitrarly allocated to a job without proper consideration of productivity, comparative advantages and outside options (Lau et al. 2004).
If so, should it thus be defanged, rather than allocated another form of control over the people in the name of campaign finance reform?
A range of non-financial rewards have been tried, according to national key informants - awards, medals, certificates - but they tend not to link to performance but, rather, are allocated according to 'fairness' (the spirit of collective endeavour makes it difficult to identify high performers).
As policy moves towards auctioning emissions allowances rather than allocating them for free, the new institution would administer the auctions.
The bilateral aviation agreement with China, unlike any other in memory, forces Transportation Department officials to choose between passenger and cargo carriers, rather than allocating routes to each separately.
But Beijing's calculus is political: It is easier to increase the quantity of water resources, at whatever cost, rather than allocate a limited supply between competing interests.
Matthew Knowles from the Defence Industries Council trade body said the government needed to review the requirement based on deployments in Afghanistan and future needs rather than allocate a certain budget and then see what can be done within that framework.
While no one interviewed for this article was in a position to quote exact numbers, all were under the impression that CCP dealt with one unified research and development fund, rather than allocating money by project.
