On Nov. 7, after two dozen women's health advocates and researchers sent a letter protesting Ms. Umanzor's detention, Ms. Myers issued a memorandum instructing field officers "to exercise discretion" during arrests by releasing nursing mothers from detention unless they presented a national security or public safety risk.
Two examples of revisions for this project included decisions to target households with children under five (to capture the perceived highest-risk group) and the decision to instruct field researchers to speak with adult women where possible (men were much less likely to express knowledge of ill-health within the household).
Instructions on how to administer the survey and how the data was to be entered on-line were emailed to all local study researchers, who instructed the field workers as to the correct on-line data entry.
It said in a statement this week that it had instructed its field officers to specifically monitor maritime and air traffic from Japan.
While the I.R.S. stopped short of labeling the strategy an abusive tax shelter, it instructed its field agents, appeals officers, examiners and lawyers to pay close attention to the returns of wealthy people who use it.
In a directive issued last Thursday, the I.R.S. instructed its field agents on how to audit American banks and United States branches of foreign banks with an eye to "uncovering and developing cases" related to certain swap transactions "that may have been executed in order to avoid tax with respect to U.S. source dividend income" paid to offshore hedge funds and foreign investors.
It instructed every field office across the country to provide intelligence on how many local black activists planned to converge on Washington, and whether they had any affiliation with communist organisations.
About 81 percent of the year's documented casualties were caused by insurgents, an increase from 2011 despite numerous statements by Taliban leaders instructing their field commanders to avoid harming civilians.
The Karuna group, a rebel faction that split from the Tamil Tigers in 2004 and which a senior United Nations official last month accused of colluding with security forces to recruit children, has agreed to instruct its field commanders against recruiting minors and allow international monitors to inspect its camps.
He compelled a young couple to lie down in a field together, instructed them to "make this your last kiss," and shot both of them in the back.
