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...left insisted they remain. Though Foot last year vowed that the radicals would run on a Labor ticket "over my dead body," the group stayed, and the Labor leader ended up campaigning with their candidates. Sir Harold Wilson, voicing the frustration of many of his party colleagues at the rise of the leftist militants, bluntly criticized Foot's accommodating stand. "I would not have anything to do with them," he said flatly. "I would sling them out on their necks...
...raised the value-added tax (a levy on goods and services) 8% to 15% and sharply cut public spending. Thatcher's top priority was righting inflation. That was a reversal of traditional British postwar economic policy, which held full employment as the primary objective. To curb price rises, she cut public spending at a time when rising , unemployment and the consequent increase in welfare expenditures would normally push it up. The money supply was throttled and interest rates were allowed to soar, forcing up the value of the pound and making British goods harder to sell on world markets...
...began before herpes came to full public attention. Says California Sexologist Harvey Caplan: "In a funny sort of way, some people are actually relieved by the threat of herpes. It's a good excuse for them to give up a life-style that had become unsatisfying." Yankelovich thinks the rise of herpes has revived feelings of guilt and the idea of disease as a form of moral punishment for promiscuity. Beneath the veneer of liberation, he says, "we have a residual guilt, and the idea that promiscuity breeds disease falls on prepared ears...
...process, witnessing the sheer helplessness of its most prominent citizen, the Chief Justice... does this contribute to the fight against terror or does such a mass not become that dry tinder ready to burst into flame? Do we have to wait for the storming of the Bastille? People will rise, and let me tell you, what disturbs me is that we've not had so far in all our demonstrations - and we've had massive demonstrations, tens of millions have come out on the streets - and not once have you seen the flag of a foreign country burned. But last...
...election results. Pakistan's Election Commission has released new rules prohibiting journalists from reporting on results or exit polls on election day; only tallies announced by the Election Commission can be reported. The government has prohibited exit polls, saying that they "create chaos, are misleading and give rise to rumors." Of course, they can also be a reliable check on election results. "This is yet another restriction on the type of commentary and prognostication of polling that the government doesn't want to see," says Imran Aslam, president Geo TV, Pakistan's most popular channel. "They are obviously concerned about...