When asked on "Fox News Sunday" about Mr. Woodward's contention that Mr. Cheney and Mr. Powell are so distant on policy matters that they do not talk, Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, described the men's relationship as "friendly".
As a 'standalone' unit, its researchers saw themselves as rather distant from policy; Hough (2014: 218) described us as "rather reluctant civil servants".
Though full ecosystem recovery is only possible in the very distant future, policy action will benefit vulnerable species that accumulate MeHg and prevent further increases in MeHg in consumed species.
And its fraternal ways do not conform readily to distant public-policy analysis; for example, firefighters swap shifts to accommodate second jobs so often that critics wonder which job really is the second job.
When it comes to the Chinese market, local contractors have the edge over distant rivals.Deft policy could boost these advantages still further.
But the minutes suggest that inflation, a major concern last year, has become a distant worry as policy makers try to prop up the economy.
Now that TV's Bergerac is just a distant memory this policy has become truly popular, not least because Jersey is one of the tax havens that have become the legal pirate coves of the 21st century.
Arid-dwelling people are also exposed to variability – indirectly from their biophysical environments, and directly as a result of sparse, mobile populations and variable, distant signals from policy and markets.
They are needed because wealthy and distant politicians impose policies which, as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows, mean some families can not afford essential items like clothes.
So as I said, it's sad: Ponnuru hopes to get Republicans to accept policies they'll never accept, and the only way he knows to make his case is to invoke the memories of a politician from the quite distant past whose policies weren't all that successful in the first place.
