Being political

We all have needs, requirements, wants, and expectations. Needs are essential for life, to maintain certain standards, or essential for products and services, to fulfill the purpose for which they have been acquired. Requirements are what we request of others and may encompass our needs but often we don t fully realize what we need until after we have made our request. For example, now that we own a mobile phone we discover we really need hands-free operation when using the phone while driving a vehicle. Hence our requirements at the moment of sale may or may not express all our needs. Our requirements may include wants - what we would like to have but do not need nice to have but not essential. Expectations are implied needs or requirements. They have not been requested because we take them for granted - we regard them to be understood within our particular society as the accepted norm. They may be things to which we are accustomed, based on fashion, style, trends, or previous experience. Hence one expects sales staff to be polite and courteous, electronic products to be safe and reliable, policemen to be honest, etc. 

New subsidies often outlive the public policy purpose that they were intended to address. The better-designed subsidies contain sunset provisions that require explicit action to reauthorize them after a certain time. Subsidy and externality policies arc often interrelated. It may be politically difficult to tax an energy source with high external costs, but much easier to subsidize a competing energy source with low external costs. Such second best solutions arc often implemented when political considerations block the preferred option. 

We talked. We talked about cocktails. We talked about drinking.The lady next to me was from New Orleans, which from her description, and fairly historical hearsay, is a good place to drink. I mentioned this, to be polite. I got the first of several well-manicured, light taps on the sleeve as camaraderie developed, and a surprised look. Genuine surprise, on the spur of the moment, is something that society ladies are extremely good at—without equal in fact. 

Good plan - if they persist, you will need to be polite but firm. 

Studies performed several years prior to September 11, 2001 showed that terrorist incidents around the world declined somewhat, while the severity of individual attacks increased dramatically.1 The motivation for terrorist acts has shifted in recent years from being politically driven to having a more fatalistic orientation. Current-day terrorism is increasingly motivated by body count, and more often than not is religiously or ethnically motivated. While politically motivated terrorism tends to limit the amount of violence in order to ensure that it does not impact supporters sympathy for its cause, today s nihilistic terrorism is more simply focused on massive death and destruction of property. 

We would like to have cheap energy, or, at least, energy as inexpensive as possible we would like secure energy supplies (in the political sense) and we want to have supply systems with minimum environmental effects. Unfortunately, it is often difficult to get all three at the same time. For many countries, the cheapest supplies are for some time likely to be imported oil, these are not however, necessarily secure. The use of coal may be politically secure and relatively inexpensive but not environmentally sanitary. S3mthetic fuels based on coal may pose environmental problems because of the large amounts of coal to be mined and processed, and may not be cheap either. Electricity, because it can be generated in a variety of ways and in many places responds well to security of supply. Environmental effects at the point of end use are minimal. 

Vizzard, William J. Shots in the Dark. Lanham, Md. Rowman Littlefield, 2000. A former agent for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms examines the back ound for gun control issues and surveys the key developments in gun control legislation starting with New York s Sullivan Law in 1911. Fie concludes with modest proposals for strengthening gun laws, believing that more radical measures would not be politically feasible. 

Be polite and formal. Avoid slang, cliches, contractions, and informal language. 

The best possible answer is, thus, choice b. A firefighter must always be polite and courteous to the public. An explanation of why the utility company is best suited to help her allows the citizen to understand your actions. Though it would be unsafe for you to do as the... 

Your bearing—how you stand, sit, and carry yourself—should not be phony or self-conscious, either. Be polite, attentive, and interested. If you listen carefully, make eye contact with your questioners, and answer them directly and with respect, you should be fine. It is a job interview attend to business. 

First, the use of emissions standards, which establish a level of emissions into the air and water above which emitters are fined, implies that emissions below the standard are "free" to the emitter. An explicit market could achieve the same distributional result but only by explicitly giving away initial rights, an activity thought to be politically difficult to implement. ... 

Thus there is scope for democratic control over what science investigates, the methods of investigation it uses, and whether action should be taken as a result of those investigations. However, there should not be political control, democratic or otherwise, over adding scientific knowledge to the stock of knowledge that forms part of the world we inhabit. 

The reality is, however, that it will be politically difficult or impossible to stabilize CO2 emissions at 1990 levels, let alone bring about a significant reduction. Rubin et al.is discuss some realistic mitigation options. 

There is another parallel to the ethyl homologue, a-ET. In the commentary under a-ET, I had mentioned how industry was benefiting economically in the War on Drugs, by charging inflated prices for reference and research samples. Here, there just might be political counterpart. 

A few loyalists still maintain that a sinister conspiracy by big government and industry killed cold fusion, but cold fusion was thoroughly discredited in society at large. Unlike the Lysenko affair, there was no all-powerful political establishment that could declare cold fusion to be politically correct or incorrect and its opponents enemies of the people. 

I have found one salvinorin "hardhead." Under my supervision, the man carefully and properly smoked a full milligram of salvinorin, vaporized in a glass pipe. After a few minutes he shrugged his shoulders, got up, and, trying to be polite, remarked that "maybe there were some visuals."... 

We can be sure he won t try anything in person. After Omsk, even Wargaard s men will chant my name and an open attempt to remove me would be political suicide. At a time when politics will be returning to the fore. ... 

To do science properly one has to be willing to be politically incorrect. This building of mine is politically incorrect (apolitical in fact), but it is esthetic and elevating to the free spirit, and some day evolutionists will look into it and suffer an attack of deja vu and then our theoretical excursions will acquire a different glow and likely a new owner to boot. Chemistry is Machiavellian. 

However, rapidly reducing free allocations may be politically very difficult, and benchmarking is generally far more complex than it appears because of the variety of installation types, processes and products and neither in itself offers ready protection against competitiveness and leakage concerns. If the EU ETS is to be sustained over long periods, and potentially at high carbon prices, we see three main avenues that have the potential to meet all the criteria ... 

Auctioning EU ETS allowances would provide the Treasury with the public funds to pay for carbon contracts.55 This would be politically appealing - spending auction revenues on longterm carbon contracts would represent genuine revenue recycling to industry in a manner that... 

Then there is political activity in your home states. Be politically active in supporting and sustaining the appointments or election of women to high positions at the federal, state, and local levels. Why is this important If we look at the current Administration in Washington, we see women in various positions of power. We need to continually support this type of political activity, especially if we are going to be raising issues of women in the work environment, in this case, the field of chemistry. So we want people to know first that we applaud the efforts of women and second that we want them to... 

There might be sufficient scientific uncertainty in the technical analysis of a standard to mean that a rigid numerical outcome is inappropriate (note that while one option could be not to develop a standard if uncertainty is high, this might not be politically acceptable). 

This clinical result is obvious in the great majority of patients, some of whom are reduced to a zombielike state. It is documented by recent research studies involving the atypical antipsychotic Risperdal and other neuroleptics. It is also confirmed by studies of animals, normal human beings, political dissenters, and rebellious children as well as by studies of the inmates of mental hospitals, institutions for the developmentally disabled, nursing homes, and prisons. Given an effective therapeutic dose, all human beings and animals alike are emotionally stifled and subdued by antipsychotic drugs. 

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