Therefore, like Congress, the State Department is more focused at the macroscopic/policy level, although the bureaucracy factor tends to reduce the scope of any particular branch or unit.
Similar synergies are also important at the international policy level, but we focus at the forest level and on the decisions of individual workers and the effectiveness of forest auditors.
For instance, it allowed us to manage the gaps and overlaps between the work package focusing on the policy development process at national level and the team working on policy implementation within the districts.
As a reporter covering the Midwest for more than a decade, I have focused at times on shifting policies regarding sexual predators — from local bans on where they can live to controversial programs in which states hold offenders, even after they complete criminal sentences, and the legal challenges that have followed.
A second study at the policy level will focus on trends in private sector participation (objective ii) in each of the programs over time.
Our long-term goal, and what we're focused on at a policy level, is replicating and scaling this social enterprise model at an affordable cost and in a way that it's sustainable and can provide continuity of care.
While attention has been intensely focused on security policy changes at the Boston Marathon, similar measures have been taken at virtually every road race since last year's explosions on Boylston Street, including changes at the Baltimore Running Festival in October.
But mindful of the potential political costs to the president of appearing wholly focused on foreign policy at a time of domestic economic weakness, they said Mr. Bush and his top aides would simultaneously undertake a public relations campaign in favor of the president's tax cut proposals.
But ever since, I've focused on how policy at local and national level can be rooted in the experiences of those receiving and delivering services.
