"The objective is to affect policy".
However, I still think models can affect policy.
They were an attempt to affect policy through minute changes in the text.
None has the power to really affect policy, merely tinkering around the edges.
"Either you have the influence to affect policy or you don't," Mr. Lazio said before a campaign stop in Rochester.
How would that affect policy toward Iran, which is believed to be on the verge of becoming a nuclear power?
It's hard to say how this could affect policy if he were president, but it is not encouraging.
Academic economists used to expect to affect policy only at third or fourth hand; but lately they have, in unprecedented numbers, moved into the corridors of power.
"Through their access and budget they're able to affect a lot of people's ideas about an event and also affect policy.
"I do not intend to dwell on personality aberrations, except as they affect policy decision-making – which, of course, always involves personalities".
But while the San Francisco study is groundbreaking, it's still in its infancy, and is unlikely to affect policy or health outcomes for quite some time.
