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Decision-making

For example, Maris Martinsons has found that American, Japanese and Chinese business leaders each exhibit a distinctive national style of decision-making.


Airnav.com

Additionally available on Airnav.com is METAR, terminal aerodrome forecast (TAF), distance calculator, times of morning and evening civil twilight and sunset/sunrise to aid the pilot for decision-making purposes and to be legally equipped for night flight, airport management remarks, Notice to Airmen (NOTAM), distances to popular landmarks and attractions, hotels, cities, and closest airports.

Amadou Samb

Samb was signed by professional club Monza in October 2008, after the court of Treviglio upheld the appeal from Monza for the decision of Italian Football Federation (FIGC).

Bakassi

The decision was reportedly made at a meeting on 2 July 2006 and The Vanguard newspaper of Nigeria reported the decision to secede.

Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center

The unique partnership began in October 2002 when the Veterans Health Administration and the DoD signed an Executive Council Decision Memo, directing the partnership between the two medical centers.

Carson Yeung

He was held responsible for the club's U-turn on the contract offered to manager Steve Bruce in May 2007, which led to Bruce's decision to resign from the club and move to Wigan Athletic F.C. of November that year.

Clay D. Land

Within hours of Land's decision, the physician's attorney, Orly Taitz, told the news site Talking Points Memo that she felt Land's refusal to hear her case was an act of treason.

Consultation

Bahá'í consultation, a distinctive method of non-adversarial decision-making

Cypriot presidential election, 2003

Klerides campaign was hurt by the decision of his close aide and attorney general Alecos Markides to also stand in the election as an independent.

Derrick Gosselin

He specializes in decision making in complex and turbulent environments (Wicked problems, Futures Studies, Complexity theory).

DiscReet Records

DiscReet was shut down in 1979 following the decision by Warner Bros. to release three albums for which Zappa claimed Warner did not have proper authorization, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, and Orchestral Favorites.

Empowerment evaluation

Stanford University School of Medicine applied the technique to curricular decision making.

Foreign football players in Germany

For the 2006–07 season, the limits on foreign (non-EU) players were lifted, based on a decision of the German Football Association (DFB) and Deutsche Fußball Liga made on 21 December 2005.

Frank E. Willis

Citing "voter confusion", Willis then appealed that decision to the South Carolina Democratic Party, who ruled in favor of Wukela, and denied the mayor's request for another primary election.

Frank Melli

In the words of Barbara Pyle: “If we are going to save the environment, it’s not going to come from any one big decision, but from many individual choices – choices by people like you and I. The media has a responsibility to educate and help people make these choices.”

Gabriel Ruelas

Ruelas turned pro in 1988 and in 1993 challenged WBC Super Featherweight Title holder Azumah Nelson, losing a close majority decision.

Gabriel Varga

He returned to the ring on January 8, 2011 at a Canada vs. China event in Jinan, China where he won by unanimous decision under sanshou rules.

Hezbollah foreign relations

The foreign ministers of all 28 EU countries agreed to the decision which was based on concerns over Hezbollah's role in the 2012 Burgas bus bombing and the organizations involvement in Syrian civil war supporting the Ba'ath government.

Humberto Leal Garcia

Euna Lee, an American journalist who was arrested in North Korea in 2009, criticized the United States' failure to comply with the Vienna Convention, saying that she believed "prompt consular access" protected her from physical mistreatment while a prisoner, and that the decision in the Leal case would encourage foreign governments to violate the rights of American citizens abroad.

Isle of Man Courier

The company made the decision after complaining that the Isle of Man Government was starving it of advertising by favouring the Isle of Man Examiner and its sister papers, the Isle of Man Weekly Times and the Manx Star.

Javier Aguirre

Aguirre's decision-making during the qualifying stages and especially during the World Cup grew increasingly controversial, with the ESPN broadcaster José Ramón Fernández calling him the worst coach in the World Cup after France's Raymond Domenech.

Juaquin Gallardo

After beating title contender Arturo Morua, he would then lose a very disputed decision to IBO Light Welterweight World Champion Colin Lynes.

Marine Doom

In 1996, General Charles C. Krulak, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps issued a directive to use wargames for improving "Military Thinking and Decision Making Exercises".

Masakatsu Ueda

Ueda faced Travis Marx in the first round of the Season 6 Bantamweight Tournament and suffered a unanimous decision loss in a competitive fight.

Morris Pashman

In a 1964 decision, Pashman upheld Bergen County prosecutor Guy W. Calissi's decision to ban the sale of the John Cleland book Fanny Hill in New Jersey, calling the book "sufficiently obscene to forfeit the protection of the First Amendment of the Constitution."

National Broadcasting Co. v. United States

As a result of this 1943 decision, NBC was forced to sell one of its networks and it was this action which then led to the creation of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC).

National Signing Day

He took out a picture of himself with Penn State head coach Joe Paterno during the press conference and announced his decision to sign with Penn State.

Nik Lentz

In his fourth UFC appearance, Lentz defeated Andre Winner at UFC 118 via unanimous decision (30–27 (twice) and 29–28).

Nonprofit organization

The Model Nonprofit Corporation Act imposes many complexities and requirements on membership decision-making.

Padmanabhaswamy Temple

As trustees of the temple, the Travancore Royal family have challenged the Kerala High Court's decision in the Supreme Court of India.

Pedro Nolasco

Later in the year he lost a decision to future champ Victor Callejas.

Perfect 10, Inc. v. Google Inc.

Following the district court's decision, both sides cross-appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Pico Airport

The first studies were completed to construct a runway for the remote island of Pico during the post-War era when, instead, a final decision in 1946 saw the construction of an aerodrome on the island of Faial.

Rafael Ruelas

Shortly after a TKO in 10 over the popular Jorge Páez in 1992, Ruelas earned a shot at IBF Lightweight Title Freddie Pendleton, overcoming an early knockdown and winning by unanimous decision.

Raymond Pace Alexander

Many accounts of the black civil rights struggle in the United States focus on the large-scale events, urban rebellions and nationwide efforts that characterized the years after the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

Richard Scholtes

Then-Senator William Cohen described Scholtes' testimony as vital in the decision of Congress to create the United States Special Operations Command.

Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007

The meeting did not end with a decision, however, five candidates were narrowed down: Serebro, Gorod 312, Band'Eros, Zveri and Aleksandr Panayotov and Alexey Chumakov.

Scenario planning

The use of scenarios was audited by Arie de Geus's team in the early 1980s and they found that the decision making processes following the scenarios were the primary cause of the lack of strategic implementation, rather than the scenarios themselves.

Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

In the March 2009 issue of Council’s popular scientific periodical “Bilim ve Teknik”, the initially planned cover story commemorating the 200th Birthday of Charles Darwin was retracted after a last minute decision by the board of directors proclaimed as the result of missing links in editorial processes and procedures.

Scott E. Page

In 1993 he earned a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences also from the Kellogg School under the guidance of Stanley Reiter and Roger Myerson (his advisors), Mark Satterthwaite, and Matthew Jackson.

Skeffling

The decision to use renewable energy was made with 'Agenda 21' of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit in mind, which has sustainable development at its heart.

Sky Knight Helicopter Program

The decision involved Lakewood city officials, Lakewood Sheriff’s station Captain Ted von Minden, the Hughes Tool Company (Manufacturers of the 300B helicopters to be flown in the study), and the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.

Standard Athletic Club

In 1922, the historic decision to ensure a permanent home for the Club led to the purchase of the present grounds in Meudon.

State Marriage Defense Act

It was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Representative Randy Weber, a Texas Republican, on January 9, 2014, who presented it as an attempt to clarify federal government's implementation of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor in June 2013.

Training simulation

The first commercially available training simulation was in 1956, and was called The Top Management Decision Game, and was created by the American Management Association.

Wallid Ismail

In 1998, he defeated Johil de Oliveira by submission due to strikes, and then defeated Gary Myers via decision.

William C. Conner

In a 1981 decision later reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in a case brought by Harpo Marx's widow Susan Fleming, Conner ruled that the producers of A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine had improperly used the Marx Brothers characters in their Broadway theatre production and that the publicity rights of the comedians, even after their deaths, overrode the First Amendment claims of the show's creators.

William H. Tebbs

However, not long afterward the decision was made to name Oskaloosa as the county seat.

Wounded Knee incident

Afterward AIM leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means were indicted on charges related to the events, but their 1974 case was dismissed by the federal court for prosecutorial misconduct, a decision upheld on appeal.

Youth council

Many cities, including Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, and San Jose, California, have active youth councils that inform city government decision-making.


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