"It comes across to us as a classic example of policy first and explanation later, " Mr Fletcher added.
The address was Mr. Thompson's first significant policy speech and first detailed proposal by any of the serious mayoral candidates about how to tackle crime in the city.
So now Heseltine will carry out the diagnosis that any industrial policy would first of all need: a competitiveness audit.
This policy, first implemented by Ronald Reagan in 1984, forbids American government funding of foreign organisations which in any way promote, endorse or advocate abortion.
About 77, 000 people in Scotland now receive help in their own homes and in care homes compared with 64, 000 when the policy was first introduced.
Meanwhile, Ponting has defended Australia's rotation policy after first Test hero Mitchell Starc was rested for the Melbourne match, allowing Jackson Bird to make his debut.
On the question of phone records, the Justice Department is guided by policy that first was written 40 years ago after the excesses of the Watergate era.
U.S. State Department officials and family planning groups such as Planned Parenthood said they expect Obama to overturn the "Mexico City" policy, first instituted by the Reagan administration.
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While the policy governing the first decision should be strict, the policy governing the second should be lenient.
Customers would have to be repaid their PPI premiums, plus interest, if the bank or other firm concluded that the customer would not have bought the policy in the first place if they had been fully aware of the policy's details.
Chief executive Henry Engelhardt, who was with the business when it sold its first policy over the phone in 1993, said he believes the next 20 years will make the first 20 "seem downright pedestrian".
Instead, I recommended that policy makers focus first and foremost on producing clear, empirically-driven problem definitions.
We ran a very tight monetary policy during the first month and 20 days.
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In the first policy decision since unleashing QE3, the Federal Reserve decided to stay its course.
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Fannie and Freddie and the banks opposed these policy changes at first through both lobbying and intransigence.
That will run into opposition from the interests that lobbied for the policy in the first place.
Moody's has restated its negative outlook on France's AAA credit rating, pending Mr Hollande's first policy decisions.
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It was one of the first policy decisions taken by the secretary of state for Wales after the general election.
Obama argued that the first policy will facilitate peace and the second policy will prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
But the justices in that case refused to decide whether the commission's policy violates the First Amendment guarantee of free speech.
Traders in Tokyo had braced for the news, which was released after the first policy-board meeting under the BOJ's new activist governor.
And there are new questions about his ties to big oil companies as he developed the administration's energy policy in the first term.
This is the second report by the committee on the future of the EU cohesion policy, the first of which was published in December 2009.
The new policy is the first to come out of an internal cruise industry review announced last month in response to the Costa Concordia disaster.
After the first policy-setting meeting under Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, the central bank said it will more than double its holdings of Japanese government bonds by 2014.
The political risk to the euro zone's austerity-first policy approach has been all the greater because there is little hard evidence yet to demonstrate it works.
One explanation for all the confusion is that it reflects a deeper uncertainty about why the Bank adopted its zero interest-rate policy in the first place.
In recent years, Mr Greenspan has been taking a big risk by not having tightened policy when he first thought a bubble might be forming, or subsequently.
When Julia Gillard made her first policy announcement as prime minister, ditching Kevin Rudd's Big Australia policy, she did so through the front pages of the Murdoch-owned tabloids.
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