* 2000-Champion ( non-policy ): Kansas State University ( Kyle Wilson and Ben Sharp ).

The article ends with a quotation from Ben Wilmott ( Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development ): " Employers can ensure professional language in the workplace by having a well drafted policy on bullying and harassment that emphasises how bad language has potential to amount to harassment or bullying.

* Health TA ( HTA ): A specialised type of expert TA informing policy makers about efficacy, safety and cost effectiveness issues of pharmaceuticals and medical treatments, see article on Health Technology Assessment.

Directorate for Information Management and Chief Information Officer ( DS ): This directorate provides a secure, standardized and integrated global Information Technology enterprise that is continuously improved and maintained in response to intelligence customer needs and enables collaborative discovery, synthesis, and delivery of critical intelligence to warfighters, defense planners, national-security policy makers, and international partners.

Directorate for Intelligence, Joint Staff ( J2 ): Advises and supports the Joint Chiefs of Staff with foreign military intelligence for defense policy and war planning.

IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy ( CEESP ): CEESP provides expertise and policy advice on economic and social factors for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity.

* Cohen, Nissim ( 2012 ) “ Policy entrepreneurs and the design of public policy: Conceptual framework and the case of the National Health Insurance Law in Israel ” Journal of Social Research & Policy, 3 ( 1 ): 5-26.

He was thus foreign minister at the outbreak of World War I, and in the words of Hew Strachan ( The First World War, p. 72 ): " Of all the world's statesmen in 1914, Katō proved the most adroit at using war for the purposes of policy.

* Bronwen Lichtenstein, Tradition and experiment in New Zealand AIDS policy, AIDS and Public Policy, 12 ( 3 ): 79-88, 1997

* Bronwen Lichtenstein, Tradition and experiment in New Zealand AIDS policy, AIDS and Public Policy, 12 ( 3 ): 79-88, 1997

Network behavior analysis ( NBA ): examines network traffic to identify threats that generate unusual traffic flows, such as distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attacks, certain forms of malware, and policy violations.

* Non-deliverable forwards ( NDF ): A strictly risk-transfer financial product similar to a Forward Rate Agreement, but used only where monetary policy restrictions on the currency in question limit the free flow and conversion of capital.

The following statements have been made regarding the status of the historic counties ( though they are not Government policy statements ):

* Federal Finance Administration ( FFA ): Responsible for the budget, financial planning, financial policy, the federal treasury and financial equalisation between the Confederation and the cantons.

* Federal Office of Personnel ( FOPER ): Responsible for human resources management, personnel policy and personnel training.

* State Secretariat for Economic Affairs ( seco ): Responsible for national and international economic policy, trade negotiations and labour policy.

* Federal Office for Agriculture ( FOAG ): Responsible for agricultural policy and for direct payments to Swiss farmers.

* Federal Housing Office ( FHO ): Responsible for housing policy.

* Lucas, Robert E. ( 1976 ): ' Econometric policy evaluation: A critique ', in K. Brunner and A. H. Meltzer ( eds.

): Discounting for time and risk in energy policy.

The term is most often used by, on the one hand libertarians and free-market thinkers, and, on the other, social and cultural traditionalists as a criticism of those who propose to use law, tax policy, or other kinds of state influence to attempt to modify or altogether transform existing social mores or power relationships ( actual or perceived ): for instance, between men and women, or between different ethnic groups.

Source: NIMH ( image source ): The public may reproduce without permission information from the National Institute of Mental Health Web site, except for documents that state another copyright policy applies to them.

* Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia, and Hungary ( Operation Joint Guard ): 20 December 1996-20 June 1998 ; also entitled to Armed Forces Service Medal for above same timeframe as an exception to policy

* Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, former Yugoslavia, ( Operation Joint Endeavor ): 20 November 1995-19 December 1998 ; also entitled to Armed Forces Service Medal for same timeframe as a DOD exception to policy

" Many law firms have an " up or out policy " ( pioneered around 1900 by partner Paul Cravath of Cravath, Swaine & Moore ): associates who do not make partner are required to resign and join another firm, go it alone as a solo practitioner, go to work in-house in a corporate legal department, or change professions ( burnout rates are very high in law ).

and ( C ) to finance, for not more than three years beyond the end of said period, such activities as are required to correlate, coordinate, and round out the results of studies and research undertaken pursuant to this Act: Provided, That funds available in any one year for research and development may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State to assure that such activities are consistent with the foreign policy objectives of the United States, be expended in cooperation with public or private agencies in foreign countries in the development of processes useful to the program in the United States: And provided further, That every such contract or agreement made with any public or private agency in a foreign country shall contain provisions effective to insure that the results or information developed in connection therewith shall be available without cost to the United States for the use of the United States throughout the world and for the use of the general public within the United States.

If the Department of State is to take primary responsibility for foreign policy in Washington, it follows that the ambassador is expected to take charge overseas.

Armed with constitutional power to negate the Executive's foreign policy, the Senate carries a big stick and is easily provoked to use it on the State Department's back, or on the head of the Secretary of State.

But where the core of NATO is concerned, the Secretary of State has not only reiterated the United States' profound attachment to the alliance, `` cornerstone '' of its foreign policy, but has announced that five nuclear submarines will eventually be at NATO's disposal in European waters.

Lincoln's foreign policy approach had been initially hands off, due to his inexperience ; he left most diplomacy appointments and other foreign policy matters to his Secretary of State, William Seward.

The British government also took direct steps to counter the influence of CND, Secretary of State for Defence Michael Heseltine setting up Defence Secretariat 19 " to explain to the public the facts about the Government's policy on deterrence and multilateral disarmament ".

The first came in an accusation by former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, who claimed that the Bush administration's foreign policy was run by a " Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal " implying a sinister intent ;

In November 2006, a lawsuit was filed against the North Central Regional Library District ( NCRL ) in Washington State for its policy of refusing to disable restrictions upon requests of adult patrons, but CIPA was not challenged in that matter.

In May 2010, the Washington State Supreme Court provided an opinion after it was asked to certify a question referred by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington: “ Whether a public library, consistent with Article I, § 5 of the Washington Constitution, may filter Internet access for all patrons without disabling Web sites containing constitutionally-protected speech upon the request of an adult library patron .” The Washington State Supreme Court ruled that NCRL ’ s internet filtering policy did not violate Article I, Section 5 of the Washington State Constitution.

In fall 1976, however, amid the turmoil of New York City's dire fiscal crisis, the free tuition policy was discontinued under pressure from the federal government, the financial community that had a role in rescuing the city from bankruptcy, and New York State, which would take over the funding of CUNY's senior colleges.

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

The U. S. Secretary of State is analogous to the foreign minister of other nations and is the official charged with state-to-state diplomacy, although the president has ultimate authority over foreign policy ; that policy includes defining the national interest, as well as the strategies chosen both to safeguard that and to achieve its policy goals.

The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States, as mentioned in the Foreign Policy Agenda of the U. S. Department of State, are " to create a more secure, democratic, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community.

By the end of 1954 Eisenhower's military and foreign policy experts – the NSC, CJS and State Dept.

Some examples of democide cited by Rummel include the Great Purges carried out by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, the deaths from the colonial policy in the Congo Free State, and Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward, which resulted in a famine killing millions of people.

In 2012, former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger addressed the U. S. policy on East Pakistan, as " Gun boat diplomacy ".

::: The President of the Russian Federation shall, in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation and federal laws, determine the basic objectives of the internal and foreign policy of the State.

:::: f ) shall address the Federal Assembly with annual messages on the situation in the country and on the basic objectives of the internal and foreign policy of the State.

* 1940 – The United States ' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U. S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.