Some articles on policy:
... Acheson devised the policy and wrote Truman's 1947 request to Congress for aid to Greece and Turkey, a speech which stressed the dangers of totalitarianism rather than Soviet ... framework for containment, first formulated by George Kennan, who served as the head of Acheson's Policy Planning Staff ... formation of NATO was a dramatic departure from historic American foreign policy goals of avoiding any "entangling alliances." ...
... So far as the mass of people are concerned, the policy of the day is not active but a passive policy ... Their policy is not so much to attack the Government as to ignore it and to build up a new government by its side ...
... In May 2006 a controversy arose over Virgin Blue's policy with regard to passengers with disabilities ... Commission, Virgin Blue backed down from this policy, agreeing to limit it to passengers weighing over 130 kg ... Mr Wallace or other people in his situation are prohibited from accessing by Virgin’s own policy" ...
... The main criticism against industrial policy arises from the concept of government failure ... Industrial policy is seen as harmful as governments lack the required information, capabilities and incentives to successfully determine whether the benefits of ... or personal incentives can be captured by vested interests, leading to industrial policy would only supporting rent-seeking the political elite, while distorting the efficient allocation of resources by market ...
... Investment policy in many nations is tied to immigration policy, either due to a desire to prevent human capital flight by forcing investors to keep ... A frequent criticism of such joint immigration-investment policy is that they encourage organized crime by providing incentive for money-laundering and safe places for "bosses" to move to when the heat rises ...
More definitions of "policy":
- (noun): Written contract or certificate of insurance.
Example: "You should have read the small print on your policy"
Synonyms: insurance policy, insurance
- (noun): A plan of action adopted by an individual or social group.
Example: "It was a policy of retribution"; "a politician keeps changing his policies"
Famous quotes containing the word policy:
“Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)
“Maybe it’s understandable what a history of failures America’s foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America’s miniature schnauzer—a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue, I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)