The Can Kicks Back, which officially launches today with an event at George Washington University, is joining the chorus of outside groups calling for a bipartisan "grand bargain" using Simpson-Bowles as a starting point, achieving at least $4 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years.
"We should turn this moment into a real starting point to achieve a peace that secures stability and flourishing and renders the dream of coexistence a reality, and this is the vision of the Arab peace initiative," Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in his opening speech.
The Russian president specified no conditions regarding the political status of the territories seized by rebels, and his spokesman later said that the proposals were not "dogma" that had to be used in full and were intended only as a starting point to achieve an immediate halt to bloodshed.
Urgently addressing the knowledge gaps is the starting point for achieving global water security.
Senators Kerry and Boxer have provided the Senate with an excellent starting point for achieving comprehensive legislation that can reduce global warming pollution and repower America's economic recovery.
In a budget proposal released Tuesday, President Barack Obama called on Congress to restore the benefits as "a starting point in achieving opportunity and mobility," at a cost of $15 billion.
Understanding disparities in occurrence, care management, and health outcomes may be a starting point towards achieving more effective strategies to prevent and manage diabetes.
Some researchers have proposed including safety within a "Safe Sustainability Continuum" where commitment to safety serves as a starting point toward achieving sustainable business practices [ 10, 11].
We suggest that a starting point for achieving this may be to encourage a more systematic acknowledgment and communication of uncertainties for which the uncertainty assessment framework can be used.
32 Taking all this in mind, we could say that there is still a long way to go to develop effective gene therapy treatments for human ciliopathies, but these first steps establish the starting point to achieve it.
The diabetes prevalence increases at an alarming rate around the world and understanding disparities in occurrence, care management, and health outcomes may be a starting point towards achieving more effective strategies to prevent and manage it.
