Word: parliament
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...MacArthur is a politician, and judging by last nights performance, a rather good one. A Conservative Member of Parliament, although technically a Scottish Unionist (it seems that neither the English nor the Scots want to recognize the fact that they have been under a common government since 1707). MacArthur is a tall man, somewhat bald, but very distinguished looking. He wears a typically British double-breasted suit and has a politican's ability to be both straightforward and devious at the same time and almost get away with...
Speaking last week at the opening of the Thursday afternoon lecture series, Macridis depicted de Gaulle's death as the end of a political era. 'The presidential system will be out after de Gaulle," he stated, adding that the prime minister and the parliament would again take precedence. And so, the Sixth Republic, Macridisthinks, will be much more like the fourth than the Fifth...
...party discipline. Most ambitious young politicians shun the role, since whips are so heavily burdened with party duties that they have little chance to make their mark in the House, Heath leaped at the job, which he saw as a unique opportunity to master the subtle inner mechanisms of Parliament and party. Thanks to a natural and sometimes ruthless flair for handling men and anticipating trouble, he rose rapidly through the whips' ranks until, in 1955, he was elected chief whip...
...prospects look worse. Declaring that "our existence as a major airline is at stake," KLM President Ernst van der Beugel recently announced to his 17,300 employees plans to cut costs by 13%-largely by lopping 2,000 people off the payroll. This week the Dutch Parliament will take up Van der Beugel's desperate request for a government guarantee of $104 million in new bank loans for KLM, and an immediate $14 million loan to keep it from running out of cash...
...deal must be approved by Parliament before it becomes final, but no snags are expected, for in Denmark Mø11er is a national hero. Besides, although Gulf Oil has spent $15 million looking, no trace of oil has ever been found in Denmark...