Undertaking a sort of comedy travelogue, he talks about bumping into Ireland's Taoiseach at a urinal, Western panic about Islam, the Avignon Papacy (medieval theology rarely gets a laugh) and the joys of wearing Austrian lederhosen, and the gag quotient is high in a fiercely intelligent hour that goes by too fast (to 26 Aug).
However, one top official familiar with Tenet's thinking told me that early last year, well before the August meeting, C.I.A. officials had asked the agency's Red Cell team, an internal think tank, to undertake "a different sort of analysis, 'go a little more hypothetical on the question, and see what you come up with.' They gave us a report, and it seemed pretty hypothetical.
"In the view of our dealer and sponsor members, it is not the role of the depositors and its officers to undertake any sort of credit analysis," Sifma told the commission, adding, "They are not trained to do so".
I've spoken to a handful of VCs who hold that it's getting increasingly difficult to announce funding or undertake any sort of publicity for the nascent companies they're involved with.
Thirty-five participants from a variety of political and institutional backgrounds in the UK, US, Canada and Japan undertook a 'Q sort' of 48 statements about geoengineering between December 2012 and February 2013.
"It has become overly onerous and a real barrier to undertaking any sort of normal tour" if you try to combine American dates with appearances in other countries, Mr. Luxford continued.
Choose the right lighting equipment: Lights are one of the most important factors to keep in mind before undertaking any sort of interior designing/re-designing.
It seemed like the project as epic, the idea of digging into where you are – in Olson's case, the fishing port of Gloucester, Massachusetts – accumulating information, taking it all the way back, the monstrous reading that you would have to undertake to do this, a sort of crazed scholarship.
Even when US government officials knew, and wrote, that high drug prices would undermine access, they conspired to undertake all sorts of pressure to get policies favorable to the drug companies.
