Renewed in December 2012 over the objections of senate intelligence committee members Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, Section 702 also permits NSA analysts to search through the collected communications for identifying information about Americans, an amendment to so-called "minimisation" rules revealed by the Guardian in August and termed the "backdoor search loophole" by Wyden.
Whatever one thinks of regulatory policy, it should be clear that the central bank's primary focus is macroeconomic management, and particularly the minimisation of big swings in key variables away from trend.
Pfizer's approach "appears to have been fundamentally driven by the corporate financial benefits to its shareholders of cost savings and tax minimisation," said Leif Johansson, AstraZeneca's chairman.
But Mr Bezos applied what he calls a "regret minimisation framework", imagining whether, as an 80-year-old looking back, he would regret the decision not to strike out on his own.
Cost factors explain the rise: transport adds nothing to the final value of a good so cost minimisation is all-important.
In 2009 it launched the elective single-embryo transfer policy (now part of its multiple-births minimisation strategy) with the aim of reducing overall IVF multiple pregnancies from 27% in 2008 to 20% initially.
The information is subject to "minimisation procedures" designed to protect Americans unconnected to an investigation whose information is accidentally gathered.Yet that does not reassure everyone.
Catholic artists, responding to the Protestant minimisation of her part in humanity's salvation, re-emphasised her position as mother of God.
He promises "no minimisation or cover-up".
With a rising number of organisations and politicians calling for the minimisation of fossil fuel use and suggesting a movement towards renewable energy, many of the companies may feel they are fighting for the future of their industry.
In the words of the Oxford English Dictionary, libertarianism is about "minimisation of the role of the state".
