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Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.
Jef I. Richards
Advertising
Because
Effective
Often
Speech
Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?
Jef I. Richards
Law
Parents
Medicine
Baby
New
Like
Advertising
How
Up
Child
Want
Declare
Clutch
Planner
Profession
Many
Grow
Grow Up
Media
Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.
John A. Powell
Poverty
Live
Seven
Neighborhoods
About
Blacks
More
Concentrated
Likely
Times
Than
Whites
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
John Holt
Experience
People
Free
Find
Kinds
Make
Educational
Children
Want
Themselves
Should
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
John Holt
Problems
Will
Before
Pay
Pay Attention
Back
Slip
Threats
Attention
Him
Does
Materials
His
Off
Child
Situations
Interest
Them
Shout
Use
Amount
Bring
We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.
John Hope
Time
Hooks
River
Come
Catfish
Caught
Pin
Whale
Bank
Sat
I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.
John Hope
You
Thinking
Write
Supposed
Hours
Read
Were
Up
Waking
Grew
Your
The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend.
John Hutton
Service
Best
Depend
Secondly
Framework
Way
UK
Best Way
Civil
Vital
Civil Service
Both
Economic
Excellence
Deliver
Delivery
Individuals
How
Firstly
Modern
Which
Public
Creates
Organise
Businesses
Helps
Asset
Services
At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.
John Hutton
Challenges
Heart
Society
Types
Those
Lies
Civil
Civil Society
Laws
Implemented
Economy
Institutions
Make
Pass
How
Question
Effectiveness
Which
Union
European
European Union
So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure.
John Hutton
Focus
Visions
Secure
Jobs
Give
More
Economic
Economic Growth
Cleaner
Environment
Make
Improve
Us
Create
Europe
Growth
Competing
This call for a new culture is not a new idea.
John Hutton
Culture
Idea
New
Call
New Idea
But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.
John Hutton
Challenge
Collective
Slow
Doubt
Action
Too
Meet
Our
Immense
Scale
Faces
Emerging
Date
No-One
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Practical
Been
Any
Just
Pace
Europe
Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that of the US than any time since the 1960's.
John Hutton
Time
Relative
Per
Taking
Counties
Since
New
Western
Western Europe
Account
Than
Any
Us
Lower
Europe
Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously.
John Hutton
People
Seriously
Challenge
Will
Presidency
Aim
Our
Way
Months
Responsible
Responsible Way
Results
Lead
Delivering
Taking
Concerns
Tangible
Mature
Six
Next
Show
Europe
Function
Start
We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards.
John Hutton
Health
Better
Safety
States
Member
Must
Seek
Institutions
Does
Nor
Mean
Social
Dismantling
Cutting
Persuade
Regulation
Standards
Europe
Workplace
Yet in order to make sure the European social model keeps up with the pace of economic change that is now necessary, the EU must embrace a new approach to lawmaking.
John Hutton
Change
Approach
Must
Embrace
Economic
New
New Approach
Make
Sure
Up
Model
Order
Pace
Social
EU
European
Now
Keeps
Necessary
More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU.
John Hutton
Business
Emanate
UK
Significant
Impact
More
New
Than
EU
Regulations
Now
And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers.
John Hutton
Business
Goals
Past
Too
Meet
Broader
Has-Been
Easy
Costs
Onto
Consumers
Been
Legislators
Order
In The Past
Social
Means
Load
There is no such thing as free regulation.
John Hutton
Free
Regulation
Thing
Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.
John Hutton
Government
Business
Better
UK
Recommendations
Administrative
Costs
Red
Red Tape
Force
Make
Accept
Reductions
Impose
Tape
Targeted
Task
Task Force
Decided
Measure
Regulation
Regulations
Here
But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth.
John Hutton
Goals
Our
Jobs
Shared
Massive
Make
Effective
Contribution
Improving
Achieving
Regulation
Union
European
European Union
Growth
Level
Competitiveness
But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.
John Hutton
Needs
Will
Ambition
Presidency
Our
UK
Citizens
Take
Itself
Account
Modernise
EU
Show
Views
Adapt
Need
For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially.
John Hutton
Opportunities
Long
Practice
Few
Pay
Too
Nurses
Back
System
Financially
Restricted
Both
Could
Well
Undervalued
Clinical
Been
Endured
Them
Far
Held
Professionally
Medical
Career
Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.
John Hutton
Technology
Together
Quality
Will
Understanding
Our
Resources
More
Higher
Allow
Higher Quality
Advances
Greater
Provide
Disease
Us
Workforce
Illness
Services
Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?
John Hutton
Good
People
Simple
Some People
Assume
Local
Those
Response
Favour
Some
Mutually
Mutually Exclusive
Argue
Exclusive
Concepts
Limit
Choice
Should
Why
Services
Two
From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.
John Hutton
Time
Health
People
My Time
Know
Empowers
Choice
Lives
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