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...prominence as Tax Minister from 2000 to 2002. As his recent poll numbers rose thanks to superb TV- debate performances, his foes avoided the personal attacks that characterized the last election and contributed to the demonization, and perhaps even the murder, of Fortuyn. But with arguments against Labor policies failing to dent Bos' popularity, the CDA and its preferred coalition partner, the Liberals, have now taken aim. Liberal leader Gerrit Zalm accused Bos of lying about Labor's financial plans. And CDA M.P. Gerda Verburg went a bit lower. "We're told the whole day how charming and attractive...
...feel badly for the students who just fall asleep,” Broadfoot says as he reaches to reshelve a book on Penguin biology. “They come here wanting to study but their bodies just fail them...
...other, keeping spooked investors away from the stock market, giving the whole year its undeniable saw-toothed edge. Were we headed for a world where all the towers would fall? All the more reason to figure out quickly, before the next blow to the system, how to repair the fail-safe operations--in the boardrooms we trusted with our money, at the government agencies we trust with ourselves--that failed...
...else on the line. Their jobs, their health, their privacy, their sanity--they risked all of them to bring us badly needed word of trouble inside crucial institutions. Democratic capitalism requires that people trust in the integrity of public and private institutions alike. As whistle-blowers, these three became fail-safe systems that did not fail. For believing--really believing--that the truth is one thing that must not be moved off the books, and for stepping in to make sure that it wasn't, they have been chosen by TIME as its Persons of the Year...
Bloomstein said Agassiz residents could seek a moratorium if negotiations fail. But he said making such a move would only serve to delay the building process, while striking a deal would allow the neighborhood to obtain concrete benefits—such as the $1 million endowment for neighborhood programs...