Think tanks form a knowledge-based network that engages with new ideas, promotes their dissemination, and contributes to the shaping of political debate and public policy. Although think tanks are nonprofit and nonpartisan, they are not necessarily...

1. A group of people called together to solve problems, assist make policy decisions by thinking through problems and giving advice. 2. A term used to describe some policy institutions, whether government sponsored or...

A think tank (also called a policy institute) is an organization, institute, corporation, or group that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economy, science or technology issues, industrial or...

Budding industries, as well as surging conventional ones, are generating numerous new career growth opportunities for engineers. But with the opportunities come new professional and technical challenges. A few months ago, at ASME's summer annual meeting in Toronto, a special Think Tank Summit...

DUANE STOLTZFUS, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 10-22-1993 THINK TANK -- N.J. COMPANY GETS JUMP ON EXHAUST LAWS By DUANE STOLTZFUS, Staff Writer Date: 10-22-1993, Friday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P, 2 Star B, 1...

An international think tank urged the new leadership of gas-rich Turkmenistan on Tuesday to renounce former dictator Saparmurat Niyazov's iron-fisted rule, and described a vote for his successor as a "blatantly falsified election."The election commission, meanwhile, was finishing the vote count after Sunday's balloting to...

Former World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz, who resigned amid a furor over his handling of a bank pay package for his girlfriend, has joined the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank, as a visiting scholar.AEI's president, Christopher DeMuth, made the announcement Monday. Wolfowitz will work...