Rubin says he worked for a consensus using the discipline of "probabilistic thinking".
The president-elect should strive to rise above the narrow confines of party ideology and work for a genuine bipartisan consensus on issues like affirmative action, federal aid to education, raising the minimum wage, criminal justice reform and job training in depressed communities.
Egypt Nobel laureate and senior opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei has set out three conditions for ending a boycott of Egypt's elected Islamist president and working for a national consensus, Aswat Masriya reports.
This suggests that there may be a benefit of crossdiscipline working to share experience and work toward a consensus on methodologies for collecting accurate data on water consumption in health studies.
As discussed, our consultation method had important limitations, expressly in the questions over the representiveness of the participants, the incapacity for working towards a consensus or quantitative estimates of agreement/disagreement, and the application of arbitrary thresholds.
"We spent two or three months working with the stakeholders for a consensus, and we couldn't get an agreement," a McGreevey official concerned with land-use issues said on the condition of anonymity.
Congress is working out a consensus for reforming health care; in his most recent budget, Obama called for a "down payment" on health care.
But as House and Senate leaders work to forge a consensus bill for final approval, they should look for ways to lessen the Medicaid burden on hard-pressed state budgets — and ensure that relief is fairly apportioned.
PAGE 1 Editorial HEALTH REFORM, The States and Medicaid As House and Senate leaders work to forge a consensus bill for final approval, they should look for ways to lessen the Medicaid burden on hard-pressed state budgets -- and ensure that relief is fairly apportioned.
Amy Bartlett, global co-ordinator for Open Forum for CSO Development, which works to build a consensus for effective aid distribution, hopes that the rise of providers from outside North America and Europe will plug some of the donor gaps left over from 2008's global financial crisis.
