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Comprehensive and detailed plans, likely to produce the needed changes, have been coming out of academia, industry and financial think tanks, and less often special government commissions and the bureaucracy, for years.
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Providing funding to universities and think tanks great.
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But the two think tanks at issue have a long trail one that has tried to discredit green energy sources so that the fossil fuels can maintain their substantive lead supplying electric generators.
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Indeed, the article the firm published was not intended to give the subject matter the same authoritative treatment as more thorough studies on the same topic particularly those conducted by numerous think tanks, and the Congressional Budget Office, which came to the opposite conclusion.
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Think-tanks' flimsier finances make them easy prey too and they are more immediately influential than universities.
ECONOMIST: Reputation management
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Over the past 50 years conservatives have created a network of institutions from think-tanks to local pressure groups that have succeeded in pushing the Republican Party to the right.
ECONOMIST: George Bush
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With China so engaged in the global economy, there is a never-ending stream of data, often unreliable, to feed the appetites of economic-research firms, investment banks, hedge funds, short-sellers, political-risk advisers, think-tanks, consultancies and financial and military newsletters not to mention legions of academics, journalists, diplomats and spies.
ECONOMIST: Banyan
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In 1940, the French army disposed of 530 artillery pieces, 830 antitank guns, and 235 (almost half) of its best tanks, because in 1940 the French did not think much of the Wehrmacht until May.
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