Instead we have had a dribble of reheated, bite-size policy announcements and even that dribble has now dried up.
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Southwest Airlines has had a "customer of size policy" for more than 20 years, requiring passengers to buy a second seat on a full plane if their body crosses the armrest boundary.
Choosing the size of your policy means having a decent idea of what your company is worth.
Is it not clear by now that packing the homogenous mass called Europe into a one size fits all policy has been a failure.
The size of the policy response grew too.
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At the same time, government debt has exploded to a size that makes fiscal policy less potent.
Recognizing cultural differences among countries, Gross does not advocate a one-size-fits all policy.
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What economic theory tells us is to look at the entire projected path of policy, measure its fiscal gap, and decide on the basis of the size of its fiscal gap whether the policy is sustainable.
What really matters is that this is a debate about fiscal policy and the size of government.
The Salt Institute, which represents salt producers, says that instituting a one-size-fits-all policy on sodium could hurt some consumers.
The case seems self-evident for Ireland and Spain, where the European Central Bank was setting a one-size-fits-all monetary policy.
Devising a one-size-fits-all monetary policy for such a diverse area might prove hideously difficult, and European economies are not flexible enough to cope with the potential problems.
Ideally, currency zones should be compact and homogenous enough to show little regional variation in business cycles otherwise a one-size-fits-all monetary policy will leave some regions lingering in recession, while others grow so fast they overheat.
"At the root of the euro upheaval is a balance of payment crisis caused by the cumulative effects of a 13-year-old one-size-fits-all monetary policy and a fixed exchange rate for a collection of disparate countries in very different stages of economic and structural development, " he argues.
The coalition's first defence review came under heavy criticism - this session looks to the next big set of policy questions about the future size and shape of the UK's armed forces.
But they have significantly increased the size of the constituency that favours a moral foreign policy.
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One of the problems is the one-size-fits-all nature of euro-area monetary policy.
Limiting the size of sugary drinks, however, wasn't a policy broadly supported by voters.
While Cuba and the Dominican Republic are of similar size and baseball pedigree, an analysis from the National Foundation for American Policy found there were only four Cuban baseball players on the 40-man rosters of Major League baseball teams in 2006, compared to 81 players from the Dominican Republic.
Without specifying a policy, he seemed to be edging towards a view of appropriate family size for welfare claimants, of a maximum of two or three children.
Besides knives, the policy will also allow passengers to include in their carry-on luggage novelty-size baseball bats less than 24 inches (610 millimeters) long, toy plastic bats, billiard cues, ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and two golf clubs.
But here is the thing: The size of the takeover may well be its attraction, in respect of one aspect of public policy, but it looks likely to be its undoing, at the hands of another part of the state apparatus, the City regulator, the Financial Services Authority.
The group's model is the Jewish American community, half the size of the Asian American population, but wielding considerable influence on U.S. domestic and foreign policy.
Two years later, Ryan went to work as a speechwriter and policy analyst for Jack Kemp, who led Empower America, an organization then in the vanguard of making policy for supply-side conservatives who were pushing Republicans rightward in their views on taxes and the size of government.
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