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The bill has failed!
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"This sucker is going down. Yipee kay ay!"--
Every pound less borrowed (to buy a house) is more than two pounds less to repay and more than three pounds less to earn, over the course of a typical mortgage.0 -
Bit late to sack him, don't you think?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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After the uprising of the 17th June The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
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Down down over 600pts immediately.
Now they are saying it's still 'open' and efforts are being made to get people to change their mind!
Doesn't seem very democratic to me.
EU democracy, like the referendum in France or where ever it was, "We respect the will of the people. In fact, we respect it so much, we'll get it again!"...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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Now it can be revealed - intense lobbying by the soup manufacturers against the bill succeeded in blocking it ...
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/bank-bail%11out-thwarted-by-powerful-soup-kitchen-lobby-200809251280/BANK BAIL-OUT THWARTED BY POWERFUL SOUP KITCHEN LOBBY
THE $700 billion rescue of Wall Street has been held up after intense lobbying by America's vast and powerful soup manufacturers.
A cartel, led by Campbell's, is urging Congress to reject the plan and give Americans the chance to queue for a steaming bowlful of hearty broth.
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A spokesman for Campbell's said: "The US economy must be allowed to go through all the phases of its natural cycle. We've had 'psychotic greed' and 'frenzied panic' and now it's time for 'soup kitchen'.--
Every pound less borrowed (to buy a house) is more than two pounds less to repay and more than three pounds less to earn, over the course of a typical mortgage.0 -
Now it can be revealed - intense lobbying by the soup manufacturers against the bill succeeded in blocking it ...
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/bank-bail%11out-thwarted-by-powerful-soup-kitchen-lobby-200809251280/The economic forecast is 'warm and chunky'
So a bit like Bush's Boxer shorts :rotfl:0
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