Many, including the influential thinktank the European Stability Initiative (ESI), believed that Ashdown's rule turned Bosnia into a European "Raj", and that the time had come to allow Bosnians to assert control over their own affairs, with the HR playing a less proactive role.
Many economists argue that the potential cost to the taxpayer from the Fed's policies is far smaller than the threat of a prolonged period of economic stagnation that would result from a less proactive approach.
Those particular pieces of legislation were all written and passed by the Senate, a group that's generally less proactive than a mummy.
Then President-elect Obama made great choices in the financial sector, Geithner and Summers, shifting the less proactive Paul Volcker to a minor advisory role.
"The public's experience is policing that is less visible, less responsive and less proactive," he wrote in a post on the National Police Chiefs Councill (NPCC) blog.
Indeed, oil giant Statoil projects that achieving a low-carbon scenario will lead to the highest estimated GDP growth from 2030 onward, providing a sharp contrast with the high costs of inaction in less proactive scenarios.
Police forces in England and Wales are also carrying out less proactive work, with fewer breathalyser tests and a fall in the number of recorded drug trafficking and drug possession crimes.
It's an interesting concept for how the future of mobile services might look, especially to a market of consumers who are later adopters and therefore less proactive mobile users, or are simply bored of having too many apps.
"We have been selectively aggressive," he said yesterday, responding to a report in The Village Voice that he had been far less proactive than the California and New York City Pension funds in pushing companies to do things like publish environmental audits.
The NAO found officers taking, on average, four days longer to charge suspects now than in years past - something our home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani says is an indication of workload rather than rising crime - and there's less "proactive work", such as motorway stops of dangerous drivers and breathalyser tests.
The bury-your-head-in-the-sand approach won't make extreme weather events driven by a changing climate go away, but it will ensure that our response is uncoordinated, less proactive, and far more expensive.
