Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overlooking Scotland's swift-running River Dee, then went downstairs to wait upon his sovereign. Promptly at 10, Queen Elizabeth, trailed by two Welsh Corgis, entered the salon. The Tory Prime Minister bowed and presented the commission that Britain has been awaiting these many months: that the present Parliament be dissolved by proclamation and a new Parliament be elected on Thursday...
Gaullist critics were quick to complain about the manner of the budget's presentation (to the public rather than to Parliament first), but few dared to challenge the facts and figures of what Giscard calls "a sincere balanced budget, without any tricks or guile." In the land of Descartes, where the class prize begins in kindergarten and the race is to the swiftest synopsis, the elegant, aristocratic Giscard has been winning prizes all his life as the fastest brain in town. Born to wealth and name, Giscard zipped through France's best schools, became a member...
...above 6,000 for the first time since last spring. Last week, Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo reported that Italy's balance of payments has switched from a monstrous $1.2 billion deficit last year to a surplus of $535 million for the past five months. At the same time, Parliament acted to curb the national passion to buy on credit by passing a law requiring 25% down and two-year terms on installment purchases. Best of all, the lira has been revivified...
...late 1950s by persuading a Tory government to scrap Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, which he sees as ineffective, ruinously expensive, and a dangerous temptation to other small powers to compete in the atomic arms race. Quaife is a tough, experienced and well-connected Member of Parliament, clearly brilliant, ravenously ambitious but secretly something more: an idealist seeking a justification beyond power and a prize in the history books beyond the usual rewards of playing ambition's game. He is the most enigmatically attractive figure Snow has ever drawn...
...game is desperately exciting, well played, and in the end not quite enough. Offered a chance to back down gracefully and conserve his power, Quaife instead gambles everything-and loses everything when he is not able to hold the solid support of his own party members in Parliament...