By contrast, Mr. Payne and Mr. Niculescu are pursuing a strategy that behavioral scientists call nudge marketing, an idea popularized by the 2008 book "Nudge," by the former Obama administration regulatory affairs administrator Cass R. Sunstein and the University of Chicago professor Richard H. Thaler.
According to a regulatory filing, administrators were appointed at the end of February, charged with finding a buyer for some or all of Minicabster's assets.
Assessments of patient-focused health status and health-related quality of life (HRQL) are being recognized increasingly by clinicians, patient advocates, regulatory authorities, administrators and policy makers as primary measures of the need, efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency associated with health care services.
As a testament to the order's influence over regulatory policies across administrations, OIRA administrators from the Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump administration are gathering at the George Washington University to celebrate the silver anniversary of E.O. 12866.
"When they did this thing in California, they were thinking that they were in this world that would stretch out to infinity of falling prices," says Christopher DeMuth, president of the American Enterprise Institute and administrator of regulatory affairs at the Office of Management and Budget during the Reagan administration.
"I think this demonstrates the rigor of our regulatory system," said Bobby Acord, administrator of the agriculture agency's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
On March 6 , 2001 he sent the letter to the director of every relevant regulatory authority, including Christie Whitman, administrator of the E.P.A., and the United States attorney general, John Ashcroft.
The average vacancy rate for registered nurses in hospitals around New York City is 5.5percentthoughugh as recently as 1998, many nursing school graduates could not get jobs, said Patricia O'Brien, the senior administrator for regulatory and professional affairs at the Greater New York Hospital Association.
It should come as a shock to absolutely no one, but the participants, including a NCAA vice president of regulatory affairs, a Northwestern University administrator, the NBA's president of basketball operations, and the director of the University of New Hampshire's Sports and Entertainment Law Institute, weren't interested in actually debating this question.
A mere agency, even one as important as EPA, isn't constitutionally authorized to say "Never mind" when its legislative mandate doesn't include a regulatory authority that its administrator and the agency's supporters believe it "should" have been given.
While the Senate may not feel a sense of urgency to confirm the head of this little-known office, that would be a mistake, because when it comes to policy, the OIRA administrator or "regulatory czar" may be one of the most important and influential positions in government.
