We should all be concerned as well with the direction of policy on Afghanistan.
An independent judiciary helps, as does the fact that the three main parties all agree on the broad direction of policy.
That statement left many analysts uncertain as to the direction of policy.
Still, the uncertain direction of policy matters because a split between pragmatists and ideologues may indeed be opening up in the administration.
If there are to be disagreements, says Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, an organisation that has helped tea-party groups throughout the country, they will be on tactics, not the broad direction of policy.
For over twenty-three years, the Center for Security Policy has pioneered the organization, management and direction of public policy coalitions to promote U.S. national security.
The U.S. central bank will announce its policy statement later in the global day, which will be scrutinized for clues on the direction of monetary policy in the world's largest economy.
One new worry is the uncertain direction of Russian policy in the region under President Vladimir Putin.
Yet it cannot be wholly good news that the government has so little control over the direction of fiscal policy.
At the heart of this failure may be two other kinds of uncertainty about the future direction of government policy.
Mr Fujimori has slowed down the pace of privatisation, and has given no clear idea of the direction of economic policy for his third term.
Now you could be forgiven for finding PSA targets a bit boring (they tend to sound rather bland and broad), but they are the clearest guide to the direction of government policy.
Martin Barnes of Bank Credit Analyst, a research firm, points out that the direction of official policy (low rates, quantitative easing, big deficits) looks inflationary but the economic fundamentals (a big output gap, sluggish credit growth) look deflationary.
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And, since the eyes of the nation are on Ohio as a critical battleground state in the 2012 Presidential Election, there was definitely a keen awareness about how the election could impact the direction of energy policy and public investment for advanced energy in the United States.
As for America, Mr Verheugen's tone has become sharply critical the more strikingly so, given that he is a Social Democrat who has long kept close links with friends in Washington and who reassured Bill Clinton's people last year that a red-Green government in Germany would not change the direction of foreign policy.
Wherever a government of checks and balances subject to the popular will as opposed to the dictates of undemocratic regimes has determined the allocation of national resources and the direction of foreign policy, military forces are maintained at modest levels and the peace is not threatened by territorial or ideological ambitions.
Wherever a government of checks and balances subject to the popular will -- as opposed to the dictates of undemocratic regimes -- has determined the allocation of national resources and the direction of foreign policy, military forces are maintained at modest levels and the peace is not threatened by territorial or ideological ambitions.
The Gulf Crisis: This, of course, is the most immediate source of concern for the Bush administration over the future direction of Soviet foreign policy.
But the resurgence of the Democrats will nevertheless have a profound influence on the direction of American foreign policy, given the party's strong disagreements with the Bush doctrine.
So it seemed like a good place to learn about the future direction of US foreign policy if Mr Obama wins in November - after all, these men could be at the heart of the administration in a few months' time.
Although Obama's campaign started with a promise of fundamentally changing the direction of national security policy, in the second hundred days, there has not been much evidence that he will be able to accomplish those goals, outside of completing the scheduled withdrawal from Iraq (though leaving more troops there than many hoped for).
Uncertainties over the policy direction of China's newly installed leadership are also weighing on the market, he added.
Now imagine that while we know the direction of each of these policy changes, alas, we are very uncertain about how far these wonderful ideas will go.
President Bush, like Ronald Reagan before him, should call for a ministerial meeting involving all COCOM nations to review the current state and future direction of Western technology security policy.
This isn't about one government or one parliamentary term, but about an economic and social path that has been followed for more than 30 years now, with changes of government resulting only in a change of pace rather than a change of policy direction.
And while most of the flak has been flying in the Welsh Government's direction over its alleged lack of a policy programme, the criticism of inertia has also been levelled at the Assembly itself, which sat for the first time on May 11 and has so far managed to constitute just two committees - Petitions and Subordinate Legislation.
Implied yields were already reflecting an about-face in the direction of short-term monetary policy before some profit-taking set in for Aussie bills.
Today, with much of Europe already within range of Iran's ballistic missiles, with Iranian-controlled terror cells fanned out throughout the continent and with Europe dependent on Persian Gulf oil, there is little doubt of the direction its foreign policy would take in the event that Iran becomes a nuclear power.
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