Both the newer and older members say savvy and accumulated wisdom remain valuable political and policy assets not to be discounted.
"Our foreign policy assets - military, defence, economic, trade, diplomatic and foreign aid will be focused not exclusively but unambiguously on our region, and our focus will be on economic diplomacy.
During the Cold War, we used refugee resettlement to gain foreign policy assets, spies, allies, and spokesmen to refute the enemy's propaganda.
"American mass culture has been one of the country's greatest foreign policy assets," writes Walter Hixson in "Parting the Curtain," his study of psychological warfare against the Soviet bloc during the Cold War.
"Policy Asset Mix, Tactical Asset Allocation and Portfolio Insurance," Active Asset Allocation, State-of-the-Art Portfolio Policies, Strategies & Tactics, (Robert D. Arnott and Frank J. Fabozzi, Editors), Probus Publishing Company, 1992, pp. 115-133.
That same dynamic is at work overseas; Stephen J. Hadley, Mr. Bush's national security adviser, calls the first lady "a foreign policy asset to the president".
So, if you're in a circumstance, where domestic stocks are expensive, where you're selling into this superior relative performance that the domestic equities are exhibiting, thereby maintaining your risk exposure at a level that's consistent with what's implicit in your policy asset allocation.
This ISO standard addresses numerous areas, including information security policy, asset management, human resources, environmental security, communications, and most importantly, business continuity management and compliance.
Abe seems to recognize that Japan has been squandering its greatest foreign-policy asset — its democracy.
Wall Street transcended the limitations of physical supply via naked credit default swaps, which are like insurance policies on assets you never own.
He hates delegation, and is reluctant to surrender control, whether of policy or assets.
