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.
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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Netflix has been exemplified for years for its unlimited time off policy, a strategic decision for the movie subscription service, which recently got much heat for its competitive workplace policy that rewards high achievers and fires the adequate.
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.
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.
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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Some of their breezy optimism about America's ability to right all the world's wrongs, by force if necessary, has indeed rubbed off on policy.
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%.
Some of this focus on rules and transparency has already rubbed off on fiscal policy.
But the big picture is hard to miss: Congress never signed off on this policy.
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Xerion is avoiding gold in anticipation that central banks may eventually need to ease off their monetary policy, driving rates higher.
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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As New Labour once boasted about "crowding out" the Tories by closing off areas of policy difference, so Mr Cameron is attempting to shut out the government.
Maybe we want to sell a car because we want to purchase a new one or already have and want it out of the driveway and off the insurance policy.
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In time Hukku's perseverance wore down Citigroup's off-limits policy.
This has been a negative for the precious metals because it leads to notions the U.S. Federal Reserve will begin to turn off its monetary policy stimulus spigot that has been turned open wide the past four years.
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That decision was a response to a U.S. unemployment rate stuck at 9.6 percent, a recent slowdown in already weak GDP growth, a decline in total employment in three of the past four months, a low and declining inflation rate, weak money growth, and fiscal policy off the table over deficit concerns.
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.
The Federal Election Commission could head this off with a preemptive policy statement.
Yesterday, I attended a panel discussion of new data released by the Center for Work-Life Policy about off-rampers and on-rampers.
Some insist that any discussion of tax policy is off the table.
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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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Even if households and businesses are caught off guard by the policy, output rises and unemployment falls only temporarily, until households and businesses adjust their expectations to the new reality.
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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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"The Bernanke speech reiterated that the Fed may not do anything now, but they aren't taking further policy options off the table, " said Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Asset Management Group.
They did not need a pro-cyclical fiscal policy to stave off default or devaluation.
Topping off the rapid-fire policy prescriptions is a heavy dose of 1990s nostalgia.
He also announced that the policy of selling off 15% of the estate to cover costs would be rescinded.
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