The effect of a one-child policy on how couples decide to have children is impossible to predict, for example.
"There's been no consistent policy on how to conserve the beaches," said Gonzalo Merediz from Amigos de Sian Ka'an, one of the area's largest NGOs, when I took a tour of his Cancun office.
"That's really a Parks Department policy on how they want to conduct their business," he said.
"We don't have a specific policy" on how residencies are granted, Mr. Baryshnikov said: "We take each case individually.
None of them, he found, had either a formal or informal policy on how to respond to other firms' innovations.
Twitter on Friday said it did not have a uniform policy on how it treated law enforcement requests.
Yet even there, a new regulatory agency must be established, along with a public policy on how to price water.
Yesterday, Shah previewed a new policy on how development assistance can be leveraged as a tool in conflict zones.
Even the New York Times had a policy on how to stack books on a desk (horizontally).
This seemed to coincide with a different policy on how Premium Bond winnings were announced on the website.
"There does appear to be a policy on how to crack down on the protests," she said.
