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  Think Tank - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
The "Think Tank", so-named by Captain Kathryn Janeway, was a cooperative of technologically-advanced alien intellectuals whose alleged purpose was to solve problems...
By their own count, the Think Tank were opportunistic explorers who had solved problems for hundreds of clients, many of whom were at war.
However, the Think Tank also demanded that Seven of Nine be transferred to them and that she become a member of their group.
memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Think_Tank   (518 words)

  
 Think Tank (episode) - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
Janeway and Seven beam on board, where Kurros introduces them to the rest of the Think Tank; a humanoid alien whose language is too complex for the universal translator to translate, a life form that appears as a floating marine creature suspended in a fluid-filled tank, a bioplasmic life form and an artifical intelligence.
Kurros tells her that with the Think Tank, she could become one of the greatest intellects in the galaxy.
Subspatial charges could force the Think Tank's vessel into the open, but they'd need to find the ship first, which is almost impossible with their advanced technology.
memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Think_Tank_(episode)   (2415 words)

  
 Think-Tank Confidential - WSJ.com
Think tanks are identified in the public mind as agents of a particular political viewpoint.
To be sure, think tanks -- at least those on the right -- do not attempt to disguise their political affinities in the manner of the (invariably left-leaning) universities.
Think tanks serve as storehouses of ideas, patiently developed and nurtured, waiting for the crisis when practical men are desperately seeking a new approach, or for the inspired leader who sees the possibilities of action before the crisis arrives.
online.wsj.com /article/SB119206742349355601.html?mod=googlenews_wsj   (1550 words)

  
 What Is A Think Tank? | NCPA
A think tank is an organization that sponsors research on specific problems, encourages the discovery of solutions to those problems, and facilitates interaction among scientists and intellectuals in pursuit of these goals.
Think tanks without walls typically have no endowments and are less well-funded than older organizations that try to assemble everyone under one roof.
Think tanks tend to be graded based on their success in solving real world problems.
www.ncpa.org /pub/special/20051220-sp.html   (3150 words)

  
 AEI - Short Publications - Think Tank Confidential
The most gratifying moments in the think tank world come when ambitious ideas, politically out of the question at first, work their way through academic and professional debate, get noticed by public officials and legislators, and then are adopted as law or policy.
Think tank mavens like to point to episodes such as these as evidence that "ideas have consequences," but we know better than anyone how partial and contingent is the role of ideas in the march of politics.
A think tank is not a business, but it is not inconsistent with a think tank's distinctive ethos and purposes to imagine that it might become, in the manner of a business firm, organic and self-perpetuating.
www.aei.org /publications/pubID.27283/pub_detail.asp   (2905 words)

  
 PBS: Think Tank: Tom Wolfe and the Derriere Guard
PBS: Think Tank: Tom Wolfe and the Derriere Guard
Here are some previous Think Tank programs that may be of interest.
Think Tank is made possible by generous support from the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Foundation, and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.
www.pbs.org /thinktank   (131 words)

  
 Think tanks - SourceWatch
In reality, many think tanks are little more than public relations fronts, usually headquartered in state or national seats of government and generating self-serving scholarship that serves the advocacy goals of their industry sponsors; in the words of Yellow Times.org columnist John Chuckman, "phony institutes where ideologue~propagandists pose as academics...
This is no accident, as one of the important functions of think tanks is to provide a backdoor way for wealthy business interests to promote their ideas or to support economic and sociological research not taking place elsewhere that they feel may turn out in their favor.
Think tanks are like universities minus the students and minus the systems of peer review and other mechanisms that academia uses to promote diversity of thought.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Think_tanks   (2105 words)

  
 Turkey's think tank scene - Turkish Daily News Dec 27, 2005
Although there were some examples of think tanks such as the Foreign Policy Institute and the Marmara Foundation prior to 2000, the Turkish think tank scene really began to be taken into consideration with the foundation of the Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies in 2000.
Although there were some examples of think tanks such as the Foreign Policy Institute (FPI) and the Marmara Foundation prior to 2000, the Turkish think tank scene really began to be taken into consideration with the foundation of the Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies (ASAM) in 2000.
Another factor influencing the growth of the think tank sector in 2000-2004 was the increasing significance of public opinion in Turkish foreign policy.
www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=31800   (964 words)

  
 Think Tank
Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg is a half-hour weekly discussion show focusing on deeper trends, conditions, and ideas behind the week's headlines.
In an interview with Think Tank's Ben Wattenberg, former chairman and CEO of Loral Space and Communications Inc., Bernard Schwartz, stresses the importance of public investment in education, healthcare and infrastructure to prevent the economic sky fr...
Think Tank is joined by one of the towering figures of 20th century American Foreign Policy, Dr. Henry Kissinger.
thinktanktv.com   (4212 words)

  
 Think Tanks, Schema-Root news
A think tank is an organization that claims to serve as a center for research and/ or analysis of important public issues.
In reality, many think tanks are little more than public relations fronts, usually headquartered in state or national seats of government and generating self-serving scholarship that serves the advocacy goals of their industry sponsors; in the words of Yellow Times.org columnist John Chuckman, "phony institutes where ideologue-propagandists pose as academics...
Think tank: Utah should seek fed waiver to fix illegal immigration...
schema-root.org /people/political/think_tank   (1374 words)

  
 The Think Tank Gap
The most recent study of think tank growth, from the Foreign Policy Research Institute, shows that while the U.S. has 1776—nice symbolism—think tanks, Western Europe as a whole has only 1198, and the UK is home to 283 of them, the most of any of the countries surveyed.
In the Anglo-American world, good think tanks are entrepreneurial, but think tanks as a class are reactive: you establish one when you're losing, not when you're winning, and you do so because you think it's possible to challenge the new political establishment.
U.S. that looks the gloomiest: if the financial rise of the liberal think tanks means that the left has finally figured out that the key to success is supporting people and ideas over the long term, the conservative movement could be losing an edge it has relied on since Reagan's victory in 1980.
www.commentarymagazine.com /viewarticle.cfm/the-think-tank-gap-11237   (715 words)

  
 Think Tank Home Page
Think Tank is a free email-based newsgroup which is run by modellers for modellers to encourage the free dissemination of information between them at a faster rate than is generally available via post and particularly publications.
Think Tank is not affiliated to any manufacturers, traders or other organisations although manufacturers and traders are welcome to subscribe and may use the medium to announce forthcoming releases or similar.
To subscribe, send an email to Think Tank to receive a welcome letter and copy of the (few) house rules and to be added to the mailing list for the next edition.
apma.org.au /thinktank   (441 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Just what is a think tank?
With the Peter Hain funding row, think tanks are in the news.
In its British usage, the think tank refers primarily to organisations that conduct research with a view to causing political policies to change.
Surely, the main purpose of many think tanks is to float ideas in public without the politicians taking any responsibility for them (if the public doesn't like them) and also to put forward ideas that are so over the top, that the actual policy doesn't look so bad in comparison.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7189094.stm   (1500 words)

  
 Study Finds First Drop in Think Tank Cites
The latest survey of think tank citations—which is based on appearances in major newspapers and TV and radio transcripts that appear in the Nexis database—found that 40 percent of such citations in 2005 were to conservative or center-right groups, 47 percent were to centrist groups and only 13 percent were to center-left or progressive groups.
Overall, the 27,229 citations that the 25 most widely quoted think tanks garnered in 2005 was a 10 percent decline from 2004, the decline was 23 percent for left-leaning think tanks vs. 8 percent for right-leaning groups and 7 percent for centrists.
Other think tanks new to the study this year were the Employee Benefit Research Institute, the healthcare-oriented Kaiser Family Foundation and the Lexington Institute, a conservative organization with a focus on military issues.
www.fair.org /index.php?page=2897   (743 words)

  
 Think Tank Sources Fall, but Left Gains Slightly
Overall, the 27,877 citations that the 25 most-quoted think tanks garnered was a 4 percent decline from 2005.
Although 2006 was an election year, which normally boosts the citations of think tanks like the Center for Public Integrity (which increased 29 percent over 2005), the media seemed to favor foreign policy—related think tanks in 2006, suggesting the salience of Iraq as an issue.
The fates of two think tanks in 2006 may serve to illustrate the importance of the Iraq issue.
www.fair.org /index.php?page=3129   (944 words)

  
 Think Binghamton University
If you think Binghamton’s success is inextricably linked with the success of New York state and beyond, we invite you to join our Think Tank.
If you think that a new public law school will be a boon for aspiring lawyers and all New York state residents in need of legal services, we encourage you to join our Think Tank.
And if you think that the research conducted at Binghamton and the new businesses incubated at the Innovative Technologies Complex have the potential to reinvigorate our region’s high-tech industrial core while delivering practical benefits to the entire state and beyond, we need you to join our Think Tank.
think.binghamton.edu /think_tank.cgi   (351 words)

  
 Blake’s Think Tank
I think she better raise some cash in the meantime.
If not, she’ll have to begin thinking about what it means to run a scorched earth campaign against Obama and what that means for the party’s chances in November, not to mention the future of the Democratic Party.
It will be an issue of thinking it through.” But Fineman also notes that Obama isn’t seriously considering her as a VP candidate.
www.blakesthinktank.com   (4403 words)

  
 Home
The Black Think Tank was founded on January 21, 1979, by individuals who had been at the center of the late 1960s birth and battle for fl studies.
The Black Think Tank then issued The Call and was the catalyst for the contemporary Rites of Passage movement for African-American boys in the popular manual, Bringing the Black Boys to Manhood: The Passage, which promulgated lectures and workshops nationally and internationally, including in London and the Caribbean islands.
This is where the Black Think Tank comes in, dedicated to forging a facility to tap into and foment the undying enthusiasm of our race to think and grow free.
www.blackthinktank.com   (471 words)

  
 Think Tank
I think it should also be noted that this is an extremely complex problem, and looking to make any of these transitions independently of any of the others is impossible.
In our think tank class we are examining the question “How can we make environmentalism the norm?” We spent the first few weeks discussing many possible ways of trying to tackle this question (as you can see on our forum).
I think saying we are amazed at the incredible pace at which this is happening wouldn’t even come close to describing it.
tankofthinkers.wordpress.com   (3848 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Think Tank: Blur: Music
Think Tank was an emotional experience for Blur, with reports of problems--not least the exit of founding member Graham Coxon half way through recording.
In the event, although Think Tank, like its predecessor, is a hotchpotch of ideas, it is a cohesive album.
However i am one of the few believers that think that this album is a musical canvas waiting to be explored, and it is only when you look deeper that you appreciate it's value.
www.amazon.co.uk /Think-Tank-Blur/dp/B00008LJFP   (1074 words)

  
 ThinkTank International
Europeans tend to use the term “floatation tank”, whereas Americans tend to use the term “flotation tank”.
The terms “isolation tank” and “sensory deprivation tank” are seldom used nowadays.
However, some people refer to Pathfinder tanks as "think tanks", and use the term generically to describe floatation equipment.
www.thinktank.com.sg   (275 words)

  
 the Think Tank that has yet to be named
A report filed by DIF and DIM that interrogates the notion of critical spatial practice as it pertains to Philadelphia and the work of the Directors of the Think Tank that has yet to be named, as well as other activist work being done in the city.
The Think Thank that has yet to be named was invited to participate in “Pedagogical Factory: Exploring Strategies for an Educated City” at the Hyde Park Art Center, organized by Jim Duignan of the Stockyard Institute (and realized with the help of many others).
Volume II in the Think Tank reader series compiles several texts which discuss issues of artists, gentrification, the urban environment, and the so-called Creative Class.
thinktank.boxwith.com   (765 words)

  
 Th'ink Tank Tattoo
Th'ink Tank Tattoo and Art Gallery in Denver Colorado
With eight, and an apprentice, of Denver’s brightest and most prolific tattoo artists, Th’ink Tank has been a topic of conversation in Denver and abroad for the last 5 years.
Th'ink Tank Tattoo Studio // 172 S. Broadway Denver, CO 80209 // P. Black Sevens
www.thinktanktattoo.com   (127 words)

  
 Think Tank Directory: Guide to Public Policy Think Tanks in the United States
Think tanks have a major impact on public policy, both in Congress and the fifty states.
The men and women who staff these independent public policy research organizations are constantly quoted in the news media, and their studies have tremendous influence on policy makers.
The Think Tank Directory shines a light on this influential yet obscure area of American politics.
www.thinktankdirectory.com   (263 words)

  
 IRmep Think Tank Watch
Brookings is often portrayed as a “centrist to left think tank” in the corporate news media.
IRmep, which has published a great deal lately about American think tanks in general and Middle East think tanks in particular, was not invited, but provides annotated comments to our readers that help explain the crisis of credibility now engulfing Brookings and other formerly vaunted American think tanks.
With think tank research frameworks backing America’s new preemptive military strategy increasingly resembling a hopeless dot-com fantasy, the process of American foreign policy formulation itself is facing increased scrutiny.
www.irmep.org /Tank_Watch.htm   (2586 words)

  
 Think Tank
A Think Tank is a organization or group focused on the resolution of a particular problem or task.
A Think Tanks goal is to consider issues and challenges whose relevance reaches beyond that of the individual or immediate.
The phrase 'Think Tank' first appeared about a hundred years ago and was used at first to mean just someone's brain.
www.robsworld.org /vifsi.html   (2049 words)

  
 THINK TANK NTG - 800.501.DATA
THINK TANK NTG a regional provider of networking services throughout the Midwest opens the first of several new offices this year.
Jim Gagan company president said, "Due to increased demand in underserved markets Think Tank is undertaking a growth plan that will lead to several new locations this year.
Think Tank now offers complete email protection from viruses, spam & outages.
www.thinktankntg.com   (352 words)

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