The European Union currently requires only partner rotation every seven years and a cooling-off period of two years, the U.K. has a five-year-on, five-year-off policy, and Australia has a five-year-on, two-year-off policy.
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In time Hukku's perseverance wore down Citigroup's off-limits policy.
Yesterday, I attended a panel discussion of new data released by the Center for Work-Life Policy about off-rampers and on-rampers.
This is not to say that market forces and a largely hands-off Internet policy have delivered the ideal state of competition.
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John McCain's position on off-shore drilling -- a policy McCain now supports.
Not only is stimulating off-shoring bad policy, it is unfair to small U.S. competitors who cannot afford offices overseas to avoid visa constraints.
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This hands-off policy was supposed to have the extra virtue of allowing America to mend fences with its Arab allies and help rebuild support for the United Nations embargo on Iraq.
Colin Powell, America's secretary of state, has embarked on a Middle Eastern tour and all this diplomacy is designed to shore up a truce painstakingly negotiated earlier in the month by George Tenet, the director of the CIA. So much for Mr Bush's hands-off policy.
According to a study of off-ramping professional women sponsored by The Center for Work-Life Policy (completed in 2005, updated in 2010, ) almost one third of professional women off-ramp at some point, often pulled by family considerations.
Topping off the rapid-fire policy prescriptions is a heavy dose of 1990s nostalgia.
He says it would cost less to help a laid-off worker buy an individual policy that is unconnected to his ex-employer's.
On the eve of the Obama-Romney face-off on foreign policy, the antiestablishment magazine has published a highly contentious article arguing that American manufacturing is NOT in decline.
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In particular, they seem confident of the Federal Reserve's brilliance in weaning the American economy off its ultra-loose monetary policy.
Officials argue therefore that while Monday was a blow and a reversion to national foreign policies, writing off Europe's foreign-policy influence is premature.
The former gave their academic blessing by telling everyone that markets were rational and efficient and latter responded with deregulation of the financial industry and an increasingly hands-off approach to economic policy.
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The first signs of deflation could lead to a harsh sell-off in gold, but policy makers, particularly in the United States, are keen to avoid such a scenario.
But the Obama administration's patience -- or just policy drift, we may never know -- paid off.
When the FOMC decided recently to prevent major shrinkage in its portfolio from resulting from the run-off in mortgage-backed securities, that was not a decision to ease policy.
However, some resources, like Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA) are considered off-limits as a matter of public policy.
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However, he told BBC Radio 4's World at One that Labour would look at the provision for well-off pensioners as part of its policy review.
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They did not need a pro-cyclical fiscal policy to stave off default or devaluation.
But the dilemma is how to make fiscal policy more flexible, in order to take pressure off monetary policy, while still maintaining long-term discipline.
The trade-off was that, unlike old-fashioned whole life, the effective premiums for the universal policy death benefit rise as the policyholder ages.
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In policy terms, the run-off is a battle between Mr Menem's glitzy conservatism and Mr Kirchner's nebulous social democracy.
The U.S. would be better off with a third way: pro-growth economic policy.
For example, if you just need the policy to pay off the mortgage and you have 15 years left on the loan, a 15-year term policy should be enough.
No new privacy policy is going to rebalance the increasingly off-kilter feeling of Facebook.
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Governor King has tried his best recently to ward off demands for tighter monetary policy that has seen a split-vote for several quarters.
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But a weaker economy, and low interest rates, and government policy mis-steps that have turned investors off to Brazil soon turned the real into the weaker currency Mantega wanted all along.
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