41.   As government has scaled back welfare assistance, nonprofits are becoming de facto policy makers, shaping vital decisions over how the sick and poor are cared for.

42.   As an economics professor at the Autonomous Technical Institute of Mexico, he influenced a generation of students who became policy makers.

43.   As perhaps the most influential environmental policy maker in the world, Gore helped push issues such as global warming to the center stage of American politics.

44.   As the first report on economic conditions during the month just ended, the purchasing managers survey is closely watched by private analysts and policy makers.

45.   As the picture of the country becomes more complex, government policy makers and society must change to cope with it.

46.   As platform director, Cherny joins the ranks of other platform writers with silky prose and grand ideas who later became leading policy makers within the party.

47.   At all these events, municipal bankers can meet with state elected officials and important Republican policy makers.

48.   Because many are highly placed, their suggestions reach top policy makers and are often heeded.

49.   Before Sentance could get to the drafting table, the long-time policy maker was big-footed by the big-time grandstander.

50.   Because productivity has grown, the potential, noninflationary growth rate of the economy has risen, a fact that had been acknowledged by Federal Reserve policy makers.