BARACK OBAMA'S decision last year to put off a judgment on a proposed oil pipeline between Canada and Texas until after this year's presidential election swept a tricky problem under the carpet.
"There was a time when they would treat an information release quite differently," he said, by trying to sweep the problem under a rug.
One of my graduate school professors, Elliott Currie, wrote in his book Crime and Punishment in America that our overemphasis on punishment, above all else, is just "an attempt to sweep the problem of America's poorest communities under the rug".
One of my graduate school professors, Elliott Currie, wrote in his book Crime and Punishment in America that our over-emphasis on punishment, above all else, is just "an attempt to sweep the problem of America's poorest communities under the rug".
One has it that Dubai rebuffed Abu Dhabi's help, preferring to seek a resolution with its creditors rather than sweep the problem under the carpet.
"We're not a sport that's saying: 'OK we're just going to sweep the problem under the carpet and not bother trying to improve it the testing or trying to catch people.' We are doing that so you are going to then pay the price in terms of the sport taking a media hit when you do catch people, but at least you know the sport is trying to make itself a clean sport".
But a good country doesn't sweep problems under a rug.
An insanity verdict would raise other problems: "We will be accused of trying to sweep the problem of Breivik under the carpet," said Mr Giaever.
'The government's efforts to sweep the problem under the carpet has exploded in its face, leaving the poultry industry in tatters and the very safety of the public in jeopardy,' the Bangkok Post newspaper said in its editorial yesterday.
But we cannot continue to sweep the problem of "challenging behaviour" under the carpet; off-loading pupils whose main barrier to learning is social and emotional needs into special schools like mine is not the answer.
