While some general concepts provide broad guidance, they are not useful in helping one choose between different sites and they are not universally true.
If the Angelides commission does its job properly, it could serve as a lesser equivalent of the 9/11 Commission, providing a valuable overview of what happened and how policymakers erred, together with some broad policy guidance about what changes are necessary to prevent a recurrence.
The Department of Health issues broad guidance on who qualifies for continuing care, but how each SHA implements them can vary widely.
Shortly afterward an American official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Tehran had given "broad guidance" to Hezbollah to attack Israeli targets when the opportunity presented itself.
Instead, the regulator issued what is known as a report of investigation, used on the rare occasion when it wants to issue broad guidance from a specific investigation.
"I decide the targets, I decide the development projects and I choose to partner with the Sons of Iraq," a reference to the local security group that he helped to set up. Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American commander in Iraq, said: "It is the captains who turn the 'big ideas' and broad guidance issued at high levels into specific actions geared to local circumstances.
One senior American official said the current American intelligence assessment was that the bomber, who struck Wednesday, killing five Israelis, had been "acting under broad guidance" to hit Israeli targets when opportunities presented themselves, and that the guidance had been given to Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group, by Iran, its primary sponsor.
For the time being, General Ham will oversee the American side of the Libya operations, briefing President Obama and his top security aides from Stuttgart, as he did on Sunday, and providing broad guidance and direction to the mission's tactical commander, Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III, who is in the Mediterranean aboard a command ship, the Mount Whitney.
Integrated pest risk maps and their underlying assessments provide broad guidance for establishing surveillance programs for invasive species, but they rarely account for knowledge gaps regarding the pest of interest or how these can be reduced.
