Assessing risk in this risky world can be a stimulating exercise, abounding in implications for policy planners.

But she conceded that the current situation is no policy planner's panacea.

The Old Executive Office Building is filled with policy planners working overtime.

The President wanted to know what the effect of this new interpretation would be on his policy planners.

Also, United States policy planners never regarded the civil service with the same opprobrium as the military or economic elites.

For that reason, Mr. Schwartz said, policy planners have paid little attention to costs.

He was among the foreign policy planners on Richard M. Nixon's transition team in 1968.

Few policy planners even know just what resources are available.

All this should come as good news to policy planners in Washington.

"The Turks have everything to lose from boycotting the talks," a senior American policy planner said.