In general, the literal content of a recommendation matters much less than its existence; declining to speak or write on someone's behalf is the equivalent of saying, "I don't believe this person is particularly talented" or "I don't know enough about this candidate to endorse him or her".
When faced with a life-threatening illness, most patients readily accept their physicians' treatment recommendations no matter how dire the potential consequences.
But Williams wants Nearby to be chameleonic, able to give people recommendations no matter what they're into.
The key to being value-added when you brief an executive is to be a translator of the data and make the linkages to drive home the key messages or recommendations which matter most to him or her.
It might have been difficult to spot in the midst of his bilious rant but the scientific community needs to be careful in presenting commentary — and recommendations — on matters of serious public interest.
A computer would then be able to compare prices across several stores and make a recommendation, no matter how much various websites differ from each other in appearance.Once information "knows what it is", Internet searches will become faster and more accurate.
Others called for establishing a science secretariat within the Prime Minister's Office, or a government-chartered science advisory body similar to the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, or the defunct Science Council of Canada, to provide independent recommendations on matters of science.
That, of course, permits the president to accept or reject these recommendations, as a matter of policy.
Owen D. Young, an American business executive, headed the committee appointed to make recommendations in this matter.
The court said that the finance ministers could legally have voted either to accept or reject the commission's recommendations in the matter; where they went astray, the court said, was in supplanting them with their own proposals and adopting those instead.
