During the 1993 policy debate, the National Defense Research Institute prepared a study for the Office of the Secretary of Defense published as Sexual Orientation and U. S. Military Personnel Policy: Options and Assessment.

It started off as an event for freshers to showcase their oratorical skills in the Policy debating format but has since evolved into a multi-format national level debate highlighting the ways in which the Voice of the people is represented.

The debate formats sponsored by the NFL include Policy Debate ( Cross-Examination ), Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Public Forum Debate, and Student Congress.

The Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies is an organization of conservative and libertarian lawyers and others dedicated to debate of these principles.

In particular, debate has come up in both the student Senate, the university's Board of Governors over possible violations of Policy 33, prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation.

– Daniel Griswold, director of the Cato Institute ’ s Center for Trade Policy Studies, and Bob Young, chief economist for the American Farm Bureau, debate whether the United States should be subsidizing its farmers

Some pro-nanobot responses to Smalley's argument can be found at Debate About Assemblers — Smalley Rebuttal, The Drexler-Smalley debate on molecular assembly, Of Chemistry, Nanobots, and Policy, and Is the Revolution Real?

After much debate, commissioners also voted to adopt the recommendations of the Report of the Working Group on Israel / Palestine Policy, which included a controversial boycott of products from Israeli settlements and a campaign of " encouraging members of the United Church to avoid any and all products produced in the settlements.

* In November 2009, Pachauri was rated fifth in the list of " Top 100 Global thinkers " by Foreign Policy magazine, for " ending the debate over whether climate change matters.

* Crop spraying: a déjà vu debate: From the Andean strategy to the Afghan strategy, Transnational Institute ( TNI ), Drug Policy Briefing No 25, December 2007

Policy debate is a form of speech competition in which teams of two advocate for and against a resolution that typically calls for policy change by the United States federal government or security discourse.

Certain judges and coaches felt that the development of Policy had led it to become an extremely specialized form of debate with heavy reliance on near-incomprehensible speed in speaking and less emphasis on real-world arguments in favor of " strategic " arguments that often bordered on the near-absurd.

UNA-USA's Global Policy Programs work to strengthening the UN system, by promoting multilateral approaches to global issues and encouraging active US engagement in the world, contributing an internationalist perspective to the policy debate on the US and the world.

Matters not requiring reference to another Joint, House or Senate committee are, following the first reading, referred without debate to the Committee on Steering and Policy in the Senate ( except certain special laws relative to a city or town ), or placed in the Orders of the Day ( the Calendar ) without debate, for a second reading in the House.

Adverse reports (" ought not to pass ") are also referred to the Committee on Steering and Policy in the Senate or placed without debate in the Orders of the Day for the next session of the House.

Some scholars credit the Green movement with indirectly forcing the Communist Party to change its economic strategy in 1921 ( see New Economic Policy ), and yet, while the Greens certainly contributed to changes in Soviet policy, the extent of their influence is open to debate.

* Policy judges on the other hand look at all forms of arguments including those that come from policy debate, policy judges tend to be flow judges as well and are very open to spread and progressive debate tactics, ex.

OHSSL also offers many other common events such as debate ( Public Forum, Policy, and Lincoln Douglas ) and IE events such as Drama and International and Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking.

Policy debate is a form of speech competitionFlowing on a laptop has become more and more popular among high school and college debaters, despite the reservations of certain schools, tournaments, and judges.

In debate events ( Policy, PFD, and LD ), qualifiers are determined by a double-elimination tournament which runs until the number of debaters left in the tournament is the same as the number of qualifying slots.

* Policy Debate-Two-person, switch-side, cross-examination debate, with five minutes of preparation time per team, on the national topic.

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Commercial think tanks like the Gartner Group, Access Economics, The Helmsman Institute, and others provide additional insight which complements not for profit organisations such as CEDA, the Strategic Policy Institute, and the Australian Institute of Company directors to provide more targeted policy in defence, program governance, corporate governance and similar.

* Guide managers and employees on program and performance management, the National Environmental Policy Act, and socioeconomic analysis.

However, recent studies conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, showed ineffectiveness of this program.

FERC also administered a program to foster new cogeneration and small power production under the Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act of 1978.

These events are held on Capitol Hill and other locations under the auspices of NIAF's Frank J. Guarini Public Policy Forum and its sister program, the NIAF Public Policy Lecture Series.

With an initial gift from The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation and the late Joseph H. Flom, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics was founded in 2005 as an interdisciplinary program intended to respond to the need for leading legal scholarship in these fields.

The City Management and Urban Policy program and the Special Education program at the University of Kansas are ranked 1st in the nation by U. S. News & World Report's " America's Best Graduate Schools ".

Various certificate programs that can be completed within the 3-year JD program are also available, e. g. in Business and Public Policy ( in conjunction with the Wharton School ), in Cross-Sector Innovation ( with the School of Social Policy & Practice ), and in International Business and Law ( the Themis Joint Certificate with ESADE Law School, Barcelona, Spain ).

He also chaired the President's Oil Policy Committee and was instrumental in revising the mandatory oil import program in April 1973.

Each of Madison's four majors — Social Relations and Policy, International Relations, Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy, and Comparative Cultures and Politics — requires two years of foreign language and one semester of " field experience " in an internship or study abroad program.

* Humankind public radio's " Passengers " program interview with Policy Director Matt Maryl

In November 2003, the US Office of National Drug Control Policy ( ONDCP ) claimed the area planted with coca in Peru and Bolivia combined fell by 35 km² in the year up to June, which would suggest that a crop eradication program in neighboring Colombia was not driving production over the borders.

While employed full-time at the Republic, he also wrote for other magazines including Policy Review, George, Rolling Stone, and Harper's and contributed to Public Radio International's ( PRI ) weekly hour-long program This American Life, hosted by Ira Glass ( no relation to Stephen ).

Heinz College is headquartered in Hamburg Hall and has a branch campus in Adelaide, South Australia, that offers masters degrees in Public Policy and Management and Information Technology, a North Hollywood Center in Los Angeles, CA as part of the masters degree program in Entertainment Industry Management, and an academic and research center in Washington, DC on Capitol Hill for students in the Public Policy and Management masters program.

The PhD program in Public Policy and Management at the Heinz College was ranked in the top 5 overall and in the top 5 in faculty research activity by the National Research Council in 2010.

In 1970 the Malaysian New Economic Policy a program of Affirmative action aimed at increasing the share of the economy held by the Malay population, introduced quotas for Malays in areas such as public education, access to housing, vehicle imports, government contracts and share ownership.

In general a core curriculum of an MPP program includes courses on Microeconomics, Public Finance, Research Methods, Statistics and Advanced Data Analysis, Qualitative Research, Population Methods, Politics of Policy Process, Policy Analysis, Ethics, Public Management, Urban Policy & GIS, Program Evaluation, and more.

" Policy and vision: The case of the Holy Lance found at Antioch ", in John Gillingham & J. C. Holt, War and Government in the Middle Ages: Essays in honour of J. O. Prestwich, Boydell, 1984, pp. 33 – 45

In the meantime, Harold Holt succeeded Robert Menzies as Prime Minister and altered the immigration law to allow Asian migration — to prevent it was the main purpose of the White Australia Policy ; it was officially repudiated by Gough Whitlam when he became Prime Minister in 1972.