Lib Dem sources indicated they regarded this as a coalition decision not a policy victory for their party, our correspondent added.
At times Stone's presentation becomes almost absurd: like the scene in the Oval Office where Dubya chomps inattentively on "freedom fries" as Dick Cheney slides a crucial policy decision past him.
In fact, as the Center for Security Policy noted in a recent Decision Brief , (1) such congratulations may be a bit premature insofar as the report by the Inspector General has yet to be completed with respect to all aspects of the investigation.
The plans have been put out for public consultation until December, when the Welsh government is due to take a decision on whether to adopt them as policy.
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In fact, as reported on 9 September 1993 in a Center for Security Policy Decision Brief entitled Lifting Embargo Under Present Circumstances Will Produce New Vietnam Quagmire for Clinton (No. 93-D 76), the most experienced field investigators are effectively being taken off the case through reassignment to Hawaii -- or, as in the case of the most senior and experienced investigator, Garnett "Bill" Bell, through forced early retirement.
So the new pricing policy strikes me as a non-story, and the decision to switch a no-brainer.
So he looks at this decision as the part of a process of a policy he put in motion in December of 2009.
If you make a policy decision, if you are so callous as to do so, to slash Social Security benefits or Medicare benefits or education spending, you would then -- as you made a budget -- count that as savings, right?
Unlike other major central banks, including the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada's six-member governing council makes its decisions by consensus rather than votes and present verdicts as a common decision, thereby avoiding being labelled hard or soft on policy.
Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) are indicating a potential gain of about 70 points on the open this morning, as Wall Street digests February retail sales data ahead of a monetary policy decision from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).
The issues with General McChrystal that culminated in my decision yesterday were not as a result of a difference in policy.
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As noted in a Decision Brief issued yesterday(1), the Center for Security Policy believes that the 1996 presidential election campaign offers an unparalleled opportunity for just that sort of public education.
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"The outcome of this decision will affect the very future of Scouting, as a shift in the policy would undermine the very principles held by the BSA for over a century, " said the council, on its website.
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The Fed's decision to introduce loans to brokers as well as regulated banks marks a significant shift in policy, and raises the question of whether the former should now be subject to more stringent regulation in return.
Both would probably admit that the Bank of England's decision to buy about a third of the total stock of public debt as part of its policy of quantitative easing didn't hurt.
Just as it refuses to accept that Iran's nuclear policy is not determined by its presidents but by a higher body of decision-makers, which means that regardless of who leads the country the nature of its nuclear program will not change unless its demands are met.
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