• The fact is, this President is focused on a long-term solution so that Americans in the future, and his successors have a policy in place that means that we will not suffer from the kind of swings from the policy -- sorry -- suffer the impacts of serious spikes in oil prices in the future.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Under Mr Brown, they say, the Treasury gives the impression of having taken over policymaking on welfare reform from the Department of Social Security, and on microeconomic policy from the Department of Trade and Industry.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • Whether such leverage is sufficient to persuade the Obama administration, preoccupied with a range of competing domestic and international challenges, to depart from a policy of "strategic patience" is still unclear, even allowing for the appointment of a new secretary of state - John Kerry - who reportedly favours a more engagement-centred approach to North Korea.

    BBC: Analysis: What is driving North Korea's nuclear test plan?

  • "In an environment of rising global rates together with a healthy domestic economy there is little need for the ECB to deviate from its policy of moderately and determinedly raising interest rates, " said Michael Cartine at Thomson's IFR Markets.

    FORBES: ECB Indicates A Pause

  • Much of the ability of the private sector to step in with new employment positions will stem from a continuation of a soft rate policy from the Fed.

    FORBES: America Is Not Happy With 103K New Jobs

  • Hydroelectric projects fit in with the Chinese government's policy of helping regions that have so far benefited least from the Open Door policy of the last 12 years.

    CNN: Bottoming-Out in Bangkok?

  • But the home secretary, David Blunkett, has moved a long way from the policy of his predecessor who, two years ago, dismissed a demand by a distinguished committee of medical, legal, police and drug specialists for reform of Britain's archaic drug laws.

    ECONOMIST: Drugs

  • To me, the real crucial test is whether or not the Republican Party continues to support Bush on this policy because I suspected that if there is no real sign of improvement, and public opinion continues deteriorating, at some point, the Republican Party, sooner rather than later, will have to decide whether to take it - distance from the policy of the Bush administration.

    NPR: President Bush Airs His Ideas About Iraq and Iran

  • Deprived of income from browsers by Microsoft's policy of giving away its rival Internet Explorer and then making it inseparable from the Windows operating system, Netscape has had to create alternative revenue streams.

    ECONOMIST: War of the worlds

  • "Steps to reduce abuse of the student visa system are welcome but if the government's net migration target is to be met, they also need there to be a dramatic fall in the numbers of genuine students, " said Sarah Mulley from the Institute of Public Policy Research.

    BBC: Annual net migration to UK falls below 200,000

  • Mr. Barak's comments, the first of any official Israeli comment on the incident, marked a departure from its frequent policy of not commenting on attacks abroad attributed to Israel.

    WSJ: Israel Indicates It Struck Syria Last Week

  • Nor is it easy to disentangle the effects of climate change from those of avoidable failures in policy.

    ECONOMIST: Climate change

  • Incredibly, the fact that this might still be an "important" objective of the old Soviet military-industrial apparatus is as absent from the thinking of senior Clinton Administration policy-makers as it was from their predecessors' during the Bush-Gorbachev years.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • With many emerging nations linking their currencies to the US dollar, the impact of looser policy from the Federal Reserve quickly leaked out to other parts of the world which, unlike the US, were not heavily affected by the financial crisis.

    FORBES: 'Quantitative Tightening' As Emerging Markets Attempt To Tame Inflation

  • While some form of limited enrichment could emerge from negotiations, the stated policy of the Obama administration for now is the same as what Romney declared, Indyk said.

    CNN: Romney talks tough but differs little from Obama on Iran

  • None of them could possibly gauge the gains that the currency might bring through the simplification of transactions against the future losses Denmark might suffer from losing control of its monetary policy.

    ECONOMIST: Double standards

  • Climate-change policy is likely to be one of the largest sources of economic rents from policy interventions.

    ECONOMIST: Is it worth it?

  • Two important news items today about broadband, one from the politician in charge of government policy in this area, the other from the company with the biggest role in making the fast internet happen.

    BBC: The fight for faster broadband

  • The Yankees believe they would recoup 75%-80% of that from the insurance policy they took out on Rodriguez' contract, according to a person with knowledge of the team's thinking.

    WSJ: The Yankees' Next Steps

  • "Such incidents will not deter the government from pursuing its policy of dealing with terrorists in a resolute manner, " Home Minister Shivraj Patil said.

    BBC: 'Serial bombs' hit India's IT hub

  • In April 2011, the force said it was moving away from the controversial policy of actively stopping and talking to as many bikers as possible.

    BBC: Motorcycle dangers: North Wales Police 'educate' bikers

  • The pound was also boosted by a warning from Bank of England monetary policy committee member Andrew Sentance against delaying raising interest rates to tackle inflation.

    BBC: Builders at work

  • For people like Mr Buschkowsky, this is a disastrous departure from the progressive policy of encouraging women to work and young children to attend German-speaking pre-schools.

    ECONOMIST: Germany scandalously underuses immigrants and women

  • Let me say at the outset that I approach this subject from the perspective of a policy practitioner in defense and foreign policy matters, not as a climatologist.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Gaffney testifies on Kyoto

  • Gold would obviously benefit from an inflation type of policy.

    FORBES: Gold Futures Extend Declines On Forced Liquidation; Potential Support On Horizon

  • "At Berga, captured soldiers were forced to endure inhumane conditions and suffer from the Nazi policy of physical destruction through labor, " Baca and Bachus said in their letter to Geren.

    CNN: Lawmakers to Army chief: Honor soldiers held as slaves by Nazis

  • But let's just say from the standpoint of social policy it's just bad social policy to have people earning such a low wage that they feel frustrated, that they feel they can't get ahead.

    NPR: Serving The Beef For Low Pay: Fast Food Workers Fed Up

  • "We've neglected public health systems financially, from a policy point of view and a legal point of view, for decades, " says Lawrence Gostin , professor of law and public health at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University.

    FORBES: OutFront

  • Although fully establishing this ideal will not be possible initially, climate protection is best served by putting its elements in place from the inception of a policy regime rather than using approaches such as LCA that are poorly grounded in the principles of sound environmental management.

    FORBES: Rethinking Life-Cycle Fuel Regulations

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