Program development and policy directives flow from confederations to federations to local societies.

The committee would now vote a policy "directive," but leave the timing and magnitude of rate-setting to the chairman.

Many of the events that occurred during the period were spontaneous and local rather than being the result of coordinated policy directives from a central government.

Both new policy directives would allow the president to be portrayed as an inspirational leader whose vision goes beyond terrorism and tax cuts.

The difference is that today the ideas moved from campaign positions to the official stamp of policy directives from the commander in chief.

"The Israeli Army doesn't receive policy directives from the defense viewpoint," he said at another point.

"In other words, recent history revealed that in the case of changing policy directives, the bark might be louder than the actual bite," he said.

The effort to develop a new policy directive reflects three years of work prompted by the report.

The decisions of the first sphere are policy directives; those of the second, technical directives.

Worse still, she couldn't believe he would have been a party to any such action without very specific policy directives from the Emperor.