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...Brownie had meant that people who earn interest, in this case in tax-sheltered accounts, would pay more. But he was so caught up in Governer Brown's rhetoric that "interest" became "vested interest"--which, we all know, is just another word for Evil. Stunned, I thanked him and hung...
...hung Parliament, the Liberal Democrats, who call the political center home, would be the object of intense wooing. Ashdown, 51, is ready. A comparative unknown on the national scene, he has been doggedly stumping the country pitching a message: Labour is a spent force, the Tories are uncaring, and "the realities of the ballot box" will make both parties "more realistic." As Ashdown defines it, realism is a fairer share of power for the movement that is heir to the great Liberal reformers of the 19th and early 20th centuries -- William Gladstone, Herbert Asquith and David Lloyd George...
...Parliament elected by proportional representation, the latter promising to give Ashdown's faithful greater clout. Since a proportional system would rob the major parties of strength, neither Major nor Kinnock favors it, though Labour has bowed to the idea of autonomy for Wales and restive Scotland. If a hung Parliament emerges, a Labour-Liberal Democrat match is the more likely partnership...
...wanted to ride his own bicycle, so the Air Force had to pick up Speaker and Mrs. Foley's cycles at their home and deliver them to Andrews Air Force Base for the flight. Once in Britain, an Air Force van trundled the bikes to the chosen area and hung around while the Foleys biked. Estimated cost to the taxpayers: at least $500. Grumps an Air Force source: "Doesn't he know they rent bikes in England...
...response to his budget reform was "violent in the extreme," Weicker said. "I was hung in effigy, spat upon...compared to Saddam Hussein...