Word: barings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...politics - and its 36 new seats won in May's general election can rev up momentum. But the way parliamentary constituencies are drawn, and the mechanics of the first-past-the-post voting system, mean the Tories have to outpoll Labour nationally by at least 10% to take a bare majority in Parliament. ? THEY HAVEN'T GOT THE VISION THING. Aside from turfing out Labour and hankering for smaller government and lower taxes, Tories don't know what to sell the voters. Labour has proclaimed tough positions on the Conservatives' natural issues of crime, immigration and terror...
...hurricane laid bare that poverty is abundant in our country. When we have children of our own, will we do what our parents could not? Will we change the tax structures and other policies that under-fund school districts in the poorest areas of the country? Will we allow our kids to be bused in an effort to desegregate our nation’s schools and force education to become everybody’s problem? Asking parents to sacrifice, in effect, the advantage their children currently have is a difficult task, but if we truly believe in equal rights...
...legal language and not a reflection of Kenny's character" (though we're not sure she was around long enough to judge). In plain language, fraud means one partner deceived the other about a matter vital to the marriage, like a plot to gain citizenship--or, perhaps, that the bare feet and cowboy hat weren't really just for special occasions...
...passengers the names may change, but there will be fewer flights and smaller planes. Cramped seats, decent fares and bare-bones service will be the order of the day. And airline executives may once again start to dream of making that million bucks...
...unwillingness to provide documents they think might show Roberts is a radical, Democrats are hoping they can tempt him to answer controversial questions by dangling their votes as bait. Maybe, the Democrats hope, he's just enough of a perfectionist that he won't be satisfied with a bare majority for his confirmation-maybe his pride will kick in and he'll be tempted to try and get at least the 96 votes that Clinton-appointee Ruth Bader Ginsburg...