He chided American officials for being too ambiguous, and explained that part of the reason that Arab countries had not rushed to endorse the conference — with the United States expected to be host at a site yet to be determined — was because no one had promised in plain English that the conference would tackle final status issues.
Here, we'll begin to tackle postdoc status at academic institutions, leaving government postdocs for Part 2. But keep in mind that because practices and policies can vary enormously by institution (or even within an institution), we'll really only be able to offer some general principles and guidelines.
In recent years, these commissions have made a real contribution to improving resident parking, reducing metal theft, tackling irresponsible owners of status dogs and making high streets healthier.
The Oslo process had run its natural course; if anything, tackling the sensitive final status issues came too late, not too soon.
While the Palestinians pushed hard for the conference to tackle the final status issues, the Israelis had balked, saying they wanted security needs met first.
The new education secretary, Justine Greening, announced she is "open-minded" about the expansion of grammar schools, a system that cements inequality rather than tackles our dysfunctional status quo.
Despite his optimism, Mr. Clinton and his advisers refrained today from even listing the major issues the two leaders will tackle: the future status of Jerusalem, the fate of Palestinian refugees and the territorial shape of a Palestinian state.
Desire is a reliably unreliable guide to happiness, as Alain de Botton notes in "The Architecture of Happiness," the fifth or sixth book from the prolific professional intellectual who has tackled everything from status anxiety to sex.
In the one passage that most explicitly tackled the social status of Aïtas, Ms. Ben Hmad, by far the most gripping mover, pulled white trousers and a suit jacket over her motley lounge wear (the women's outfits suggested both the bedroom and a certain poverty) and played the oily male seducer to the coyly simpering Ms. El Hanna.
Policy implications to reach MDG 1 and 4 If the Millennium Development Goals to reduce child malnutrition rates by half and child mortality rates by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015 are to be reached in the Sahel, changing the status quo and tackling unacceptable levels of child malnutrition needs to become a policy, programme and investment priority.
It's cheaply exploitive, of course, but it's also a master class on tackling taboo subjects and shaking the status quo.
