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...productivity and wages as well as increasing employment. Consumers would also benefit from lower prices as a result of greater competition. It's a grand vision, but putting it into practice is tricky. This month, the European Commission retreated on its proposed directive for liberalizing the service industry after furious opposition from the French and German governments. Charlie McCreevy, the Commissioner responsible for the internal market, told the European Parliament that the Services Directive in its current form "has not a snowball's chance in hell" of being approved by governments and the Parliament. E.U. heads of government are expected...
...campaign, but still, in the words of a longtime aide, "surprisingly bright-eyed and bushy-tailed" in light of how things have been going lately. His party's six-point lead in the polls has dropped to three points, he's been savaged on TV by women furious about the Iraq war and the National Health Service, and his traditionally smooth New Labour p.r. machine has been sounding creaky in the run-up to a general election expected on May 5. Inside the hall, 60 people selected by their Labour M.P.s are waiting to cross- examine...
...held a sit-in atop a disused power station last month to protest plans to restart the plant and run it on coal. On the Gowan river, near Marlborough, kayakers turned a March 5 whitewater festival into a demonstration against a hydroelectricity project. In the Waikato, south of Auckland, furious farmers last week burned in effigy the boss of a company that wants to run a power line through their green acres on pylons 70 m high. Bring electricity infrastructure too close to a Kiwi, it seems, and he's likely to blow a fuse...
Quinnipiac responded in furious form, outscoring the Crimson 8-4 in the second period and 6-1 in the final 10 minutes of the game...
Lawler, also returning from a year off in 2004, proved just as dominant in the shorter distances. He opened the meet with a third-place finish in the furious 50-yard freestyle, in which he and teammate Krna—who placed second—finished within 0.01 seconds of one another...