His co-chairing in 2004 of an independent task force on Iran, which recommended engagement rather than confrontation, has tipped his hand on a key issue.
He made the statement following the publication of the 'Front Line Resources Review' compiled by the independent task and finish group on the structure of education services.
As an independent task force, our role was to recommend changes to national and international tax rules to take better account of value creation by digital firms.
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The report recommends the establishment of an "independent national task force" with a strong mandate and the resources to implement a religious tolerance and freedoms strategy for the country.
It would be politically much more acceptable to delegate this task to an independent European body like the European Central Bank than to relinquish the right to set fiscal policy.
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Mr Pollock would prefer to see the task go to an independent advisory body, manned by economic heavyweights to provide institutional memory of past crises.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of nongovernment clinicians who provide evidence-based practice guidelines, recommends against screening men over age 75 for prostate cancer.
And that's why last summer, we gave Ken Feinberg and his team the task of making an independent judgment on the executive pay packages for firms that received extraordinary assistance from the federal government.
That is when California's voters will decide whether or not to turn the task over to an independent Citizen Redistricting Commission, laboriously constructed so as to be balanced and independent by a process of screening and random selection.
The answer to that question was laid out in damning detail in a 2003 report issued by the Defense Science Board, a panel of independent advisors that set up a task force to figure out why everything seemed to be going haywire in military space.
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In every other democracy worthy of the name, independent commissions perform the sensitive and vital task of adjusting boundaries to take account of shifts in population.
He began by making the Bank of England independent, and charging it with the task of keeping inflation to 2.5% (and explaining itself to him if it misses the target by a percentage point in either direction).
The cases were brought by the U.S. Department of Justice's Campaign Financing Task Force and one-time Independent Counsel Ken Starr.
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Mr Koizumi says this is nonsense: the task of drafting privatisation plans must go to an independent authority.
Back in 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force another government-run panel of independent experts revised its breast-cancer screening recommendations by telling women to wait until age 50 before undergoing routine mammograms.
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As you know, in October 1997, the NASA Administrator chartered the Cost Assessment and Validation (CAV) Task Force, chaired by Jay Chabrow, to perform an independent review of the Space Station program.
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We also seem to differ because we see the committee's constitutional and historic task quite differently from the type of listing of laws and statutes that the independent counsel's referral contains and as majority counsel has just done.
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But to establish the extent of the wrongdoing, and to bring those responsible to justice, would be a huge task for any country, let alone one that is poor and only starting to rebuild independent institutions.
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Finally, using independent contractors enables businesses to tap a wider community of experts and use the best possible person for each task.
Burton wants a 100-page report from Charles LaBella, the outgoing head of the Justice Department campaign finance task force, and a memo from FBI Director Louis Freeh, which say there should be an independent counsel campaign finance investigation.
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