At Geron, for instance, the company's ethics advisory board seems to have the ear of management.
"Whilst the Foreign Office has long had a rule restricting the nationality of employees or secondees, the extension of the bar to advisory work seems to be new.
The advisory group seems to have come up short on practical ways to do this, to the severe disappointment, it is said, of George Soros, a global financier and one of the group's better-known members.So it may be that an opportunity to change the debate over climate action is indeed being lost.
The senate seems to have an advisory role, but John has very little to say about it except that senators should be virtuous and wise old men (Poli V 9 n81).
Now, a majority of the 19-member Editorial Advisory Board seems set to quit as well, says William Bains, one of Charlton's staunchest defenders and a member of the board.
However, Walmart's policy on carrying albums with the Parental Advisory Label seems to vary by country, as albums containing the label can be found in Canadian Walmart stores, for example.
To say that hip-hop has evolved over the last 25 years — since the days when rappers such as Ice-T and Ice Cube were terrorizing the likes of Tipper Gore, who famously lobbied for the adoption of the Parental Advisory sticker — seems an almost-laughable understatement, equal to saying that the Internet has had some effect on the way we consume music.
Hackney's most offensive burger restaurant, The Advisory, seemed the perfect place on our tour of problematic dives.
Instead, the government seems inclined to embrace "stakeholder advisory panels", which are fine as far they go but are ultimately powerless.
Instead, it seems the only way the advisory body would end up backing them would be for niche groups, such as specific age groups or for people from certain social backgrounds, if there was strong evidence they worked.
