President Obama can put his directive to "guarantee scientific integrity" in federal policy making into action in two specific areas: the Food and Drug Administration's flawed policy on over-the-counter access to the emergency contraceptive Plan B and the wasteful federal financing of abstinence-only sex education programs.
The bigger question is, why would Apple change their policy on over-the-air downloads?
In this commercial market, promotional materials could not be developed for specific brands and there was no policy on over-branding to support product recognition.
American social policy survives on over-promise, and necessarily so, I suppose, given a public that has a limited attention span on matters of poverty and inequality, an unwillingness to be separated from their tax dollars, and general skepticism about government competence in matters from hurricane relief to child-protection services to homeland security.
Washington has had to repeatedly shift policy on Egypt over the last fortnight.
It said Iran's policy on negotiations over its nuclear program was to "find common ground through logical and constructive actions" and a "positive attitude".
As well as covering the cost of free licences, the BBC will also take charge of policy on licences for over-75s, which was previously decided by the government.
Similarly, you'd think that when the Republican presidential candidates debate each other I would simply look away, turn the volume down on the TV, and wait until the obligatory segment on immigration "policy" is over.
Policy agenda advisers as policy champions mobilised strategies and tactics in the form of commitment and consensus to maintain the maternal fee exemption policy on the agenda over the years.
The drug industry's dominance over American trade policy on pharmaceuticals finally crashed over South Africa.
Burnham said that four weeks before CCGs were due to take over, coalition policy on competition was "in utter chaos".
