Word: brittan
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Home Secretary Leon Brittan was halfway through a speech to the House of Commons last week when an aide slipped him a piece of paper. Brittan had been delivering a report on the peaceful conclusion to the siege of St. James's Square, where two weeks earlier an unidentified gunman inside the Libyan embassy had fired an automatic weapon at a crowd of Libyan dissidents outside, killing Constable Yvonne Fletcher and wounding eleven demonstrators. After glancing quickly at the message, Brittan declared that police had a few moments earlier found handguns and ammunition in the vacated embassy. More significant...
...deficit dilemma facing the U.S. is a problem inherent in free societies. Democratic governments around the world have found it easy to give out favors and almost impossible to take them back. Writes Samuel Brittan, a British economic commentator, in his new book The Role and Limits of Government: "Each of us wants the benefit of services while transferring the cost to some other group; we evade the problem of deciding who should be the loser...
...Brittan: "The enormous expense of the agricultural policy is reducing the standard of living throughout Europe. Only landowners are benefiting; not even the small farmers are getting anything...
...Brittan was critical of the Community's industrial policy, saying, "The Community risks having the same kind of mess in industry that we have in agriculture. It is absurd for Brussels to try to determine which industries can grow...
...having in creating new companies. He argued that better prospects for profit were necessary to create new investments in Europe. Above all, Giersch said, Europe needs to create incentives so that entrepreneurs can succeed in creating new firms and new jobs. Brittan called for a standstill on real-pay increases so that Europe can catch up competitively. Such a measure, he said, "would break the back of the unemployment problem." Chevalier confessed that one mistake to avoid repeating was France's attempt to establish an overall government-led industrial policy. This, he said, has mainly produced unnecessary official spending...