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...supporters," says Purvis. "But he is a demagogue whose xenophobic and anti-immigration views are considered dangerous in Europe. Haider is opposed to E.U. plans to expand the union into Eastern Europe, and that could create a major problem for the E.U., since they operate by consensus." The People's party, for its part, has affirmed that it remains committed to E.U. enlargement, but European governments will keep a close watch on Austria's policies on Europe and immigration if the Freedom party, as expected, becomes part of government. Analysts have struggled to explain Haider's success at the polls...
...more people now want to live in Cambridge," he says. "The general consensus is sort of that the yuppies are driving prices up. The yuppies are considered this evil group that will pay more for housing...
...incorrectly assumes that there was a broad consensus among educated people 20 years ago that Y2K would be a problem. If that were the case, why would multi-billion dollar corporations as diverse as software companies, financial services and oil giants--all of which are generally pretty good at looking after their own interests--have continued to invest in technology that was plagued, in Lee's words, by "programming ineptitude?" "For those of use who like to keep count" writes Lee, "that's $600 billion" spent on Y2K. I do like to keep count. And so does the U.S. government...
...There were many interested parties who advised Dean Knowles on this . . . But it wasn't a collective or consensus decision or a decision taken by a committee," Lewis says...
...Greenspan does slow the economy. (George Bush Sr. is reported to believe that he lost to Bill Clinton in 1992 because Greenspan hadn't lowered interest rates to lift the economy out of a recession.) But then, it's an article of faith in today's New Democrat/Compassionate Conservative consensus that even when Greenspan's medicine tastes a little bitter, it's still good...