Charitable advocacy has been chilled, and policy experts have been denied top government positions.
"Such a policy will chill innovation," Mr. Holmer said.
Furthermore it is counter-productive in that awareness of this policy will chill reports.
The chill of fear their policies sent through immigrant communities has undercut responsible local efforts to fight crime.
Mid-level officers at a ratings agency can exercise a chilling effect on European policy by announcing to the press what exactly they would count as a default.
There is also the chill of panoptical transparency policies which may help discourage bad behaviour but are somewhat based on the assumption we all agree what 'good' is, limiting the sorts of dissent and experimentation which are key to many forms of scientific endeavour.
The American Association of University Professors said it was especially concerned about whether these policies would chill speech in the classroom.
For example, until recently anyone in Korea who bought a foreign car would automatically have their income taxes audited -- a policy that chilled demand even after it was officially ended.
In a chilling reminder of IEPA policy last April in Macomb, at a special permit hearing on the Industry Mine, in response to one local resident's question -- "In the past the IEPA has refused -- has the EPA in the past refused to issue a permit to a serial violator to a coal surface mine?" -- an IEPA official admitted that he could not "recall denying a permit".
While Mr. Schröder has reduced some corporate taxes, the murkiness of Germany's tax policy continues to chill executives.
Finally, a judge issued a subpoena, and the matter ended up in court when the city refused to turn it over on the grounds that, as Caswell F. Holloway, a deputy mayor, said in an affidavit, "candor in self-examination will be chilled and the ability of policy makers to carry out effective reform will be curtailed".
