Its pledges to unwind a decades-old race-based affirmative action policy designed to give a leg up to the majority ethnic-Malay population and reduce corruption have a strong appeal among mostly younger voters, analysts say.
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In the current term, the court is deciding a case involving an affirmative-action policy at the University of Texas, and the court may reverse at least part of a 2003 ruling that allowed some consideration of race in university admissions.
Just for starters, two years ago, the affirmative action case out of the University of Michigan, you know, she was the person who wrote the opinion that said that the affirmative action policy at the University of Michigan Law School, not the undergraduate school, was constitutional.
The Obama administration has said its deferred action policy -- which allows people younger than 30 who arrived in the United States before the age of 16, pose no criminal or security threat, and were successful students or served in the military, to apply for a two-year deferral from deportation -- is a temporary measure aimed at addressing a problem that requires a permanent solution.
Governments should take action to improve coherence and promote integrated policy and action across the social, economic and environmental pillars at the national level.
The action over the past few weeks tells you that the market is going significantly lower, but the wild card remains policy action from Europe and the Fed that could trigger a massive short covering rally.
The EUR is likely to remain the net beneficiary of the latest BoJ policy action.
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Reform of the tax code provides more leverage for increased growth than any other policy action.
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One event that might help that would be central-bank action on monetary policy, Meir said.
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Once more a deeply dangerous policy action is decided apparently without any awareness of its unintended consequences.
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However, it is not yet clear whether this purported reformist agenda will be translated into policy action.
In my many years covering the Federal Reserve I have never seen a Fed policy action this controversial.
Decisive policy action is needed to ensure the world is not "plunged back into recession", according to the OECD.
Because of that Bernanke is not likely to hint at new policy action to jolt a sluggish economy, he said.
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The Fed is not about to do that, although it might decide to link future policy action to progress on unemployment.
Buttle UK is now pressing for "urgent policy action" with key recommendations including a national allowance and improved kinship policies and practices.
There are political forces which oppose any policy action on climate change.
Such judgments are excruciating: do too little, and you undermine confidence and generate a bigger crisis that needs even bigger policy action.
Central bankers need to be credible because otherwise markets can't count on anything and will not react to policy action in the future.
James Steel, analyst, HSBC, said if the Fed postpones any policy action until September it could cause gold to weaken in a short-term move.
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Nonetheless, without policy action house prices are likely to continue falling, thanks largely to the meltdown in mortgage markets and the weakening employment outlook.
Economists agree that Japan's problems are much more serious and will require much more radical policy action than the authorities there have yet delivered.
This could possibly set the stage for further Fed policy action.
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Commodity-fueled inflation could derail what appears to be the beginning of a healthy economic recovery in the U.S., while limiting monetary policy action if growth begins to abate.
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As European regulators appeared to recognize and take steps to address the backlash against the EU-ETS, lawmakers in the United States also took unprecedented action against the policy.
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"Further credible and decisive policy action is needed to resume progress on financial stability and keep the economic recovery on track, " says Jose Vinals, director of the fund's monetary and capital markets department.
"The global environment is improving, some policy action is happening in India that will boost overall business sentiment and improve the investment climate, " said Sujan Hajra, chief economist at Anand Rathi Securities in Mumbai.
The minutes also revealed that though only three members dissented from the Operation Twist decision, Chairman Ben Bernanke is facing pressure from colleagues who want even stronger policy action, meaning another round of quantitative easing.
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Despite a slow start, there is now a clear track record of policy action in Spain which encompasses not only fiscal consolidation but also labor market and pension reforms as well as recapitalization of the weak parts of the banking sector.
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