Moreover, Carrefour's stop-and-go policy of cutting prices in the first half of the year and raising them in the run-up to the Christmas season irritated customers, who voted with their feet.
What makes matters worse according to Grantham is that the Fed, through its how-low-can-you-go rate policy actions has been pushing investors into riskier yield investments.
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No sooner had Lien returned from Singapore than his government was talking about reinvigorating the "Go South" policy.
So even before we go to new policy, they must enforce the old policy, the policy that existed Saturday night must be enforced.
But, before we get to any of that, the Bank and the Treasury are going to have one last go with the policy framework they already have.
That's why we'll improve our Partnership for Sustainable Communities by working with HUD, EPA, and the Department of Transportation in making sure that when it comes to development, housing, energy, and transportation policy go hand in hand.
Some schools have banned phones, but he says he doubts Boulder Valley's new policy will go that far.
Conservatives showed that toughness on immigration policy could go hand-in-hand with welcoming immigrants.
Where the new policy may go beyond FOI is through the phrase "regardless of the nature of the meeting", if that is interpreted rigorously.
The fight over drug policy will go on for a long-time.
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After a few months of trial and error with banner ads and the like, we opted to go with a strict policy that every advertising campaign has a coupon code.
It's likely this week that we start seeing some discussion about potential tax cuts and credits that could make some difference in hiring, but we want to go beyond just tax policy.
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Numbers like that make policy wonks go crazy, but in the voting booth, most Americans will pull the lever based on a different measure: how much they trust a candidate's integrity, and empathy.
The Justice Department has a very specific, carefully crafted policy for how they go about trying to get records from news organizations and, in key ways, they went against that policy.
As the loss calculations become clearer, policy holders can go back and amend the claim.
In a sense, the right to go bust is an insurance policy against financial disaster.
No matter which way things go, federal spending and policy will still create opportunity for companies big and small.
And that, ultimately, is where the fiscal policy debate will go aground.
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EU's wasteful farm policy and to go on selling off state assets.
Sometimes a "dodgy policy" can go through the system as there is not enough money to proceed with litigation he told committee members.
Are we going to turn around and go back to that same policy that got us in this hole in the first place?
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The one-piece-at-a-time approach is built upon a truth that politicians are loath to acknowledge: Even the most well-intentioned, carefully laid policy plans can go awry.
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If nothing else, cash flush Apples of the world feel investor and boardroom pressure to go public with a coherent policy covering a rising payout ratio on dividends and share buybacks plus acquisitions.
Obviously, we would not make a decision like that if we did not think that it was the smart way to go, and that the policy goals it would serve were achievable and outweighed the risks involved.
But if early signs are anything to go by, a new policy is emerging which, if not exactly hawkish in the pugnacious sense, is more unilateralist than outsiders are accustomed to, stepping away from multilateral and regional entanglements that are deemed marginal to America's own security needs.
Narongchai himself tendered his resignation in late June, along with then deputy PM and finance minister Amnuay Viravan. (It was Amnuay who brought businessman-economist Narongchai into the cabinet.) Chavalit asked Narongchai to stay, but let Amnuay go amid disputes over economic policy, replacing him with Thanong Bidaya, a banker with little political clout.
But a spokesman for the governor indicated that the tax break policy for teachers would go ahead.
The harder obligations are those that go to the heart of government policy.
Let me turn it over to Danny Russel to go into more detail on the policy, and then to Lael Brainard.
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