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...most probable opponent, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. He and his lieutenants have made it clear that they intend to focus their campaign on clamping down on immigration and doing more to integrate foreigners. But aside from that they have announced a clutch of new policies meant to lessen the tax burden, loosen up labor rules, and set free the largely frustrated entrepreneurial spirit of the French people. Sarkozy's talk of a "rupture" with the past has engendered plenty of ill will among the pro-Chirac traditionalists of his party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). But there...
...very likely to have driver’s licenses.”The Office of Jury Commissioner says on its website that it understands that “many people consider jury duty an inconvenience, an intrusion, and a hardship” and has implemented measures intended to lessen the hassle of jury duty. Massachusetts, for example, uses the “one day, one trial” system, whereby jurors serve either one day or, if selected to serve on a jury, one trial.After jurors have fulfilled this requirement, they are disqualified from serving again for three years...
...trial, could face imprisonment. His is hardly the first high-level political scandal in Israel: Several past presidents, cabinet ministers and prime ministers have been investigated for financial improprieties; ex-Justice Minister Haim Ramon resigned this past August after being indicted for sexual harassment. But that won't lessen the sting for Olmert, who has seen his support nosedive this year as more and more Israelis have lost faith in their leaders...
...years later - the Pythons were lauded as doing for comedy in the '70s what the Beatles did for pop music in the '60s. They extended Britain's primacy of Cool through a decade that, in other respects, was pretty bleak. Not that a Silly Walk through Harrod's could lessen the likelihood of an IRA bomb, or a thought of the Parrot sketch could warm a body through a winter rendered heatless by the oil embargo. But the Pythons lightened the load. Whatever the real-life ordeal, their dose of surreal fun was medicine for fretful minds. They helped prove...
...understand them. "Some just want to sound more British, or don't want to be labeled. They want to blend in." No one, it seems, wants to stand out from the crowd. Despite premature announcements of a classless society, plenty of native English speakers still want to lose or lessen regional accents. Professionals call this "accent smoothing" or "accent softening." Students usually want to go up the social scale, and a certain type of voice may be essential in some fields. One lawyer from the north of England who approached Futerill "felt the legal profession was still very upper middle...