Serious decisions are "consequential", good ideas are "cool", better ideas are "compelling" and the best ideas are at "the optimal frontier".
There's a thing up in Albany called "three guys in a room," in which all the serious decisions are made behind closed doors, by the Assembly speaker, the Senate majority leader and the governor.
You know, Nixon was drunk when he had it; Reagan was probably, you know, had too severe Alzheimer's to make serious decisions; Lyndon Johnson was into worrying about the next election rather than death and destruction.
Boyle will surely demand a big say, perhaps the only say, in who does this for London 2012: it is a serious casting decision, and casting decisions are the director's responsibility.
"People on Staten Island see him as local cheerleader," one political analyst said, "but they weren't going to give him a job with serious decisions to be made".
We now need bold and serious decisions to be made in order to get London building as soon as possible".
More than a week after the scandal first broke, Osborne said the allegations against HSBC and its clients were very serious, but such decisions were a matter for the prosecuting authorities – a principle that has been "one of the bulwarks of freedom in this country for hundreds of years".
Since both harms are salient and serious, PSA testing decisions were described as a "balancing act" (GP21) or gamble.
There are some serious decisions that Bernie Sanders is going to have to make if this endeavor will have been worth it for him.
"It reminded me of Boris Nikolayevich's time, when serious political and personnel decisions were made without any explanation," Vladimir A. Ryzhkov, a liberal member of the Parliament, said in a radio broadcast on Ekho Moskvy, referring to former President Boris N. Yeltsin's frequent dismissals of prime ministers in the 1990's.
After a few years in New York, during which he published two more books in Arabic, Gibran made a serious decision: he was going to begin writing in English.
