Word: mps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This enthusiasm proves an absolute godsend to back bench Members of Parliament who receive but meager salaries on which they usually manage to mantain one devoted and underpaid secretary. To such MPs crowds of keen and reasonably intelligent free research assistants are manna from heaven. With the aid of one to three such assistants the beleagured MP may now indulge in as much work as he feels suitable or necessary...
...spare, work-worn village, well to the north of the usual tourist route through the White Mountains. To come here takes $ some effort. All through the afternoon of speeches and band music, the Germans, who were honored guests, and the American men of the same age who had been MPs at the prison camp, and a few old townspeople who remembered those days tried to say exactly why this reunion meant so much to them. Using an unfamiliar language, as some tried to do, was not really the problem. It was that the situation was unusual, and the ordinary formulas...
...captured drug laboratory known as El Zorro. When reporters assembled at the air base last Tuesday, sputtering engine noises drowned out officials' attempts at a dignified briefing. Then DEA's DC-3 got stuck in mud up to its propellers while attempting to take off. Twenty Bolivian MPs finally had to push it out of the mire...
Unable to penetrate the main chancery, the V.C. commandos ran aimlessly through the compound, firing on every thing they saw. Meanwhile, small groups of Marines and MPs began arriving out side the walls of the embattled embassy...
...routine ratification. The provincial premiers naturally challenged the legality of Trudeau's proposal to proceed unilaterally, and the case naturally fell into the laps of a squirming Supreme Court. In the meantime, Trudeau's opponents--the federal Conservative party and the provincial premiers--started writing letters to British MPs, asking that they refuse to rubber stamp Trudeau's package. Even before the court announced its decision, British members were crossing the Atlantic, coming to Canada on fact-finding missions. Presumably, Britain's honorable members have had trouble enough tending to their own garden recently without these gratuitous vacations...