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blue ribbon commission
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Noun1.blue ribbon commission - an independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue
commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle


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In 2002, a blue-ribbon panel outlined the problems after a detailed study and suggested lawmakers adopt a broad-based business tax to bring equity to the system and stability to the stateƕs revenue stream.
Before would-be Western and other reformers of the Middle East get too enthusiastic about the big concepts like democracy and freedom, or even prosperity, they can address the pressing needs, the ones that everyone has already identified, without requiring the convening of blue-ribbon panels.
James Schlesinger, who led the US Defense Department from 1973 to 1975, made the remark at a Pentagon news conference, after presenting a blue-ribbon panel report finding that US nuclear deterrence has slipped due to neglect in past years at high levels of the Pentagon.
 
 
 
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