NCLB needs to be fixed, but as the Obama administration and most reformers understand, it needs to be built on and not discarded.
It's taken British Cycling a long time to understand it needs to promote the sport better, find sponsorship partners, engage youngsters and actively encourage women to consider racing.
Fauzi Ichsan, a senior economist at Standard Chartered in Jakarta, says that when a country is running current account and fiscal deficits it will understand it needs foreign investment to finance them.
A national treasure, as I understand it, needs to be something like a packet of Rich Teas or a good bit of paving: durable, undramatic, a dependable piece of infrastructure.
When you meet a new person, make sure you understand it needs to be a two-way exchange.
Those who don't understand this conversation have little to offer at this point; those who do understand it, need to start thinking about this issue and engaging it more forcefully.
I think they understood it needed a bit of patience but with luck we may be able to start to deliver [today]." Reina admits that had the dark days continued much longer, "I probably wouldn't still be here".
The deal, announced Saturday, was a Febreze-like move from Red Sox management, which understood it needed to do something dramatic to cleanse the clubhouse as well as shake up an underachieving roster.
In July, he told Michel Barnier, the EU chief negotiator, that there needed to be a finite backstop, while Mr Barnier said he understood it needed to be "short".
Led by its astute and technocratic Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe, Sri Lanka understands it needs restructuring if its governing structures are to last.
