At the past two monthly policy board meetings, BoJ decided to expand QE measures.
Mr. Shirakawa took 15 easing steps and no tightening measures at 78 policy board meetings.
Devon Gaffney Cross, President, Donor's Forum on International Affairs, Member of the Defense Policy Board.
Richard Perle, former Chairman, Defense Policy Board, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy.
Very possibly, with the new appointees, BOJ Policy Board could tilt strongly in favor of more expansionary monetary policies.
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She was the only person on the policy board who was not appointed by either Mr Orban or Fidesz.
His first act as governor was to call an emergency meeting of the policy board to get new ideas.
Councillor Lorraine Cameron, convener of Renfrewshire's education policy board, said a strike would be "unhelpful" and "disrupt children's education".
Mr. KEN ADELMAN (Defense Policy Board): He's not going to be a missionary.
And as Secretary of Defense, I also benefited from his work when he served on our Defense Policy Board.
Kenya has observer status on the UN-REDD Programme Policy Board, but is not a pilot country of the programme.
He now sits on the Defense Policy Board, a Pentagon advisory group.
Sheehan--a retired general--is a former member of the Defense Policy Board, which advises Donald Rumsfeld on military issues and includes Newt Gingrich and Dan Quayle.
Adelman is still technically a member of the Defense Policy Board.
Sutton, a two-time Walker Cup player, is a well-respected figure in American golf, and until being awarded the Ryder Cup captaincy sat on the PGA Tour Policy Board.
Among them was Richard Perle, known as the "prince of darkness" in the Reagan-era arms race, who has been reborn as the chairman of the defence policy board.
The one thing that prevented the nine-member policy board from recommending a rate increase was the lacklustre spending by consumers, reflected in the waning confidence of the big retailers.
The BOJ Policy Board operates on a majority vote.
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Finchem hates the divisiveness and distraction the proposal has stirred up, and reportedly prevailed on the Tour's player policy board, which met Monday, to write a letter to the USGA expressing the Tour's opposition.
At the Bank of Japan's October monetary-policy meeting, Nobuyuki Nakahara, one of the independent members of the bank's policy board, proposed that the bank set a price-level target and examine ways to buy foreign bonds.
On April 3 and 4, the central bank holds its first policy board meeting under the leadership of governor Haruhiko Kuroda, who has vowed to do "whatever it takes" to hit a 2 per cent inflation target by 2015.
Panetta asked a subcommittee of the newly established Defense Legal Policy Board to review cases over the past decade in which U.S. forces committed crimes against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan to see whether judicial procedures need to be improved.
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Traders in Tokyo had braced for the news, which was released after the first policy-board meeting under the BOJ's new activist governor.
Once the Icesave bill is voted down by the referendum, it'll be back to the policy drawing board and the international negotiating table.
As well as keeping rates on hold, at its regular policy-board meeting this week, the BoJ lowered its forecast for growth this fiscal year, from 1.5% to 1.2%.
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"The fact that the financial system wasn't shaken an inch despite unprecedented incidents ought to be praised, " Hidetoshi Kamezaki, who worked as a BOJ policy-board member with Mr. Shirakawa until April 2012, said recently.
At its policy-board meeting this week, the central bank was reluctant to admit that reality was at odds with its bullish view, though it acknowledged that momentum had slowed since its last outlook in October.
Mr. Kuroda, who has promised to go all out to boost the inflation rate to 2% in two years, has said bold easing by the central bank is needed, raising expectations for this week's policy-board meeting, the first under his watch.
Bernanke responded that in his more than four years on the Fed's policy-making board, he had never heard anyone suggest any adjustment in policy should be made because of an upcoming election.
According to the HR email, this is a new policy across the board for all employees.
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