And there are some ways in which policy failures have indeed exacerbated the weather-induced agony.
They identified 91 episodes since 1970 in which policy moved to stimulate the economy.
The symptoms of this political malaise can be seen in the ways in which policy making has gone awry in India.
There was something of a perfect storm in which policy mistakes combined with Wall Street's excesses.Heavy regulation would not inoculate the world against future crises.
Rather than troops-or-no-troops, stay-or-leave, the metrics provide the nuanced vernacular in which policy will actually be debated, decided, and funded.
Those officials "noted examples of past instances in which policy makers had prematurely removed accommodation, with adverse effects on economic growth, employment and price stability," it said.
It is designed to give a clear signal of the direction in which policy is moving, allowing long-term planning and stimulating innovative responses".
How would you rebalance investment to encourage long-term preventive services such as Sure Start or prisoner rehabilitation schemes, and in which policy areas?
After a year in which policy for under fives has dominated the political pages, the government is now turning its attention to teenagers.
The new Soviet leader wanted big changes and the "Silver Fox", his friend since the 1950s, to make them.After decades in which policy had crunched downhill like a glacier, the new man at the foreign ministry brought stunning shifts.
