Some people say the Bush Administration should abandon its "hands off" policy and intervene in foreign exchange markets to push the dollar down further, by around 10% to 20%.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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"There was a policy of hands-off, " said retired Maj.

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NHTSA's encouraging, but also cautious, policy statement reflects the concerns of safety regulators about allowing drivers to take their hands off the wheel.

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