In an interview yesterday, Mr. Adams said: "We have a very clear-cut policy where we are investing in companies.

But some analysts say that Mr. Alarcon, a 49-year-old career politician, owes his rise to this lack of clear-cut policies and his considerable negotiating skills.

Cynthia Leive, the editor in chief of Self, said her magazine had no clear-cut policy on writers and editors accepting free treatments.

Among the clear-cut policy differences between President Bush and Senator John Kerry is each man's take on Social Security.

In these circumstances, there could hardly be a clear-cut foreign policy.

The new regent was given the opportunity to determine a much more clear-cut policy than that of the 1540s.

In this respect, Europe has a clear-cut, outspoken policy.

Central to the UK Government's mishandling of the 2001 crisis was its lack of a clear-cut policy on whether and when vaccination should have been used.

That is why we need a clear-cut policy here.

It is important that we have a clear-cut policy on legal migration in order to help put an end to some of the disturbing hysteria.