Many are increasingly turning to seat-of-the-pants discretion to guide policy - a development that caused heated debate here.

Still, the forces of globalization, however fickle, at times function as a useful force to guide economic policy.

Empirical constraints that may otherwise guide sensible policy making seem to be evaporating.

"It would guide my defense and foreign policy."

It's good to have data to guide policy, but it is important not to confuse data with evidence.

"These data will guide regulatory policy and influence medical practice."

If cool analysis, rather than what has often looked like unspoken prejudice, had guided Western policy, might not many lives have been saved?

They guided foreign policy at a time when it seemed the Russians might win the cold war.

It is, in fact, no less than the defense of a political and economic philosophy to guide public policy as we approach the next century.

Schiller called for legislation that would provide both his ministry and the federal government with greater authority to guide economic policy.