Citywide, there is no hard and fast policy on locking schoolyards, said Kevin Ortiz, a Board of Education spokesman.
"Our hard and fast policy is we just don't discuss these sorts of things," a Citibank spokeswoman said.
"Policymaking now routinely occurs in comparative terms," says Jamie Peck of the University of British Columbia, who refers to G2G advice as "fast policy".
Mr. Alpert, who bought troubled loans from Japanese banks for pennies on the dollar, said that while American financial institutions are moving fast, policy makers should encourage or even force them to write down and restructure bad mortgages faster so they can get back to lending.
Miyamoto refused to be drawn on pricing of download games in the eShop – indeed, he suggested that Nintendo hasn't yet formulated a hard-and-fast policy on that: "Even if you download games via eShop, we will create games that are meaningful and valuable for the 3DS.
Other universities have no hard and fast policy regarding emergency funding, says Michael Conlon, president of the Canadian Federation of Students, and each case is handled individually.
"He is coming to this office with fewer set, hard-and-fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with," Obama said.
Patients were fasted according to local hospital fasting policies and always for at least six hours before surgery.
Moreover, short-term deposit rates respond faster to policy rate cuts with respect to hikes, while short-term lending rates respond faster to policy rate hikes with respect to cuts.
As they often do, events may be moving faster than policy.
