Word: alistair
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...April, ahead of the G-20 summit in London, the French leader rushed back to Merkel on the issue of tougher international regulation of financial markets, and has since encouraged a tighter relationship with Berlin. Last week, Sarkozy even started a public fight with British Chancellor Alistair Darling by bragging that the appointment of a French official to oversee E.U. regulation of financial markets was both a "victory of the European model, which has nothing to do with the excesses of financial capitalism," and a chance to "clamp down on the City [London's financial hub]" - a threat Darling described...
...economy, Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan promised $6 billion worth of savings in a budget aimed at taming the country's stubborn deficit. The plan is his second budget this year, and Ireland's harshest in decades. In a mini-budget announced a couple of hours earlier, Britain's Alistair Darling unveiled his government's latest plan to fix the U.K.'s broken economy, including a punitive tax on bankers' bonuses, a rise in social security contributions and a cap on public-sector workers...
...Rock’s nutty station manager. The ship’s eclectic personalities—including The Count (Hoffman) and Dr. Dave (Nick Frost)—have popular consensus on their side, but the boat is under legislative siege from the government. Their fiercest opponent is Minister Alistair Dormandy (Branagh), who is committed to shutting down “the drug takers and the lawbreakers and the bottom-bashing fornicators of this recently great country...
...Brosens, 6-4, 6-0. The rest would prove to be critical as the Crimson junior had a demanding tournament, also playing in the doubles bracket alongside freshman Christo Schultz. The pair made it as far as the semifinals but did not fair as well as their teammates, sophomore Alistair Felton and freshman Andy Nguyen, who won the doubles tournament yesterday afternoon after defeating Brown...
Minnesota was the toughest competition for the Crimson, and only Nguyen and sophomores Alistair Felton and Liinus Hietanmiemi managed victories. Harvard had been much more competitive the day before against Notre Dame...