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...well and some things I do not so well," he said as faced down his critics. Both parts of that statement are accurate. Some of the things Brown does well are those that helped build New Labour's reputation. Old Labour was the party of tax and spend. New Labour, for the first two years after its 1997 victory, adhered to stringent spending plans set by its Conservative predecessors. Even after that date, as Labour's Chancellor of the Exchequer, or Finance Minister - the office that best suited Brown - he held to his "golden rule," borrowing only to invest...
...hard out there for a pope these days. On Thursday, Pope Benedict XVI launched what he is calling "The Year of Priests," exhorting Roman Catholics to spend the coming year honoring the sacrifice of their local pastors and directing priests to encourage each other so that they might, among other things, "be able to live fully the gift of celibacy and build thriving Christian communities...
...proposed by Mosley would be voluntary, but far more extensive technical restrictions would be placed on teams that decline to sign up, making it harder for them to stay competitive. Some of the top teams currently spend three or four times Mosley's proposed limit on R&D in search of that evolutionary advantage. (See pictures of the history of Formula...
...surprise - save enough money for a car. "I like the new Pontiac G6s. They're amazing," she says. Apparently Hilgart has not heard that Pontiac is going out of business. Lesson to the feds: you can help kids earn some cash, but you can't expect them all to spend it wisely...
...done comprehensively, can harness the financial value of EDs: "We're the last stop before the hospital bed - the last opportunity to connect people back to a primary-care provider," where regular monitoring costs less than an expensive hospital stay for a more serious condition. "I can spend tens of thousands of dollars on an ICU bed [for a stroke patient], and nobody questions it, but if I try to get them an office visit and routine blood-pressure medication, it's a much bigger challenge." (See pictures of the end of the TV show...