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increasingly difficult to sustain. This week, David Blunkett, the home secretary,
unveiled a draft bill that, if enacted, would create the most ambitious and
intrusive national identity card scheme in Europe. (the Economist, May 1, 2004)
15. The world’s first electricity-generating rubbish incinerator was built in Britain,
in Oldham, in 1895.
16. Denmark’s first quarter current account balance of payments surplus declined to
Dkr 7.2 bn from Dkr 8.39 bn in the same period last year.
17. The startling fact about Mr Yeltsin’s firings and hirings is that even now nobody
is quite sure what was behind them. Russians may be the world’s biggest
conspiracy theorists, which is hardly surprising for a nation in which political
intrigue is an art form. (N.Y.T., April 5, 1998)
18. The judge’s face wore his usual I-knew-they-were-guilty-all-along expression.
19. From the bleak “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” (1969) to the man-against-
nature-and-human-nature “Jeremiah Johnson” (1972) to the marvelously funny
“Tootsie” (1982) or the majestic “Out of Africa” (1985), Pollack has directed
intelligent, well-made movies that spear to a wide, international audience
without pandering.
20. Watching Tebbit as television interviewer always have a certain edge-of-the-seat
feeling.
21. The resigning heat of partisanship seemed in fact to make the combatants lose
sight of how bridgeable their remaining differences of policy are, even of the
heart-of-the-matter issue of individual income tax.
22. Even as its economy continues to recover, the US is increasingly becoming a
nation of part-timers and temps. This disposable work force is the most
important trend in American business today, and it is fundamentally changing
the relationship between people and their jobs. The phenomenon provides a way
for companies to remain globally competitive while avoiding the vagaries of
market cycles and the growing burdens imposed by employment rules, health-
care costs and pension plans. For workers if can mean an end to the security,
benefits and sense of significance that came from being a loyal employee.
23. The U.S. is flexing its economic muscle to round up political support and
generate United Nations votes – both of which it needs for its impending war on
Iraq. The political lobbying, according to one Third World diplomat, is not
taking place at the U.N., but at various capitals where Washington is applying
pressure for votes in its favour.
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