But Bush set in motion policies that wound up costing about $4 trillion.
What we get with Reagan are a series of disconnects and contradictions that have led us to a situation in which a president widely hailed as a hero of the working class set in motion policies that have been mind-bogglingly beneficial to the wealthy and devastating to working people and the poor.
The summit was intended to set in motion policies to help Africa meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals to curtail by 2015 poverty and disease among the billions of people who subsist in utter destitution.
But President Bill Clinton set in motion a policy aimed at bringing the country into broad compliance by 2006.
Mark Pack, co-editor of the blog Liberal Democrat Voice, cites a conference motion and policy paper calling for a revival of mutualisation and co-ops in the NHS, local government, and large private companies as potentially giving a distinctively Liberal Democrat approach to both public sector improvement and more generally, the distribution of power between the state, corporations and individuals.
Ironically, Obama set his footsteps inside the historically large footprint of the "Great Emancipator," Abraham Lincoln, who, despite being personally conflicted over the question of what to do with millions of black people in America, set in motion presidential policy that would move the Civil War question from America's bloody battlefields to a political battleground in Congress.
Task demonstration is an effective technique for developing robot motion control policies.
Most of Obama's first year initiatives have put into motion domestic policies that are the 180 degree reverse of Jr.'s.
Just as Carnegie and Rockefeller set in motion liberalized policies that allowed Heather, John, Stephen, Sheronda and me to go to Ivy League Schools, and trained a civil rights elite at Morehouse and Spellman Colleges, philanthropy can again be transformative.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest 2.39pm BST Jo Swinson, Danny Alexander, Nick Clegg, Lorely Burt and Vince Cable vote on a policy motion.
