29. Graham Leicester, director of the Scottish Council Foundation, a think-tank, says that Scotland has one of the highest rates of child poverty in Europe.
30. Downing Street yesterday moved swiftly to deny support for proposals from the Government's favoured think-tank for root-and-branch reform of the monarchy.
31. According to a recent study of the brain-drain problem, the outflow of highly trained personnel from many developing countries to a few major developed countries is increasing at a rapid rate. The study reveals that the United States and Canada are the main beneficiaries of the brain drain.
32. The term «brain-washing» was first used by an American journalist and originally the word used to describe indoctrination techniques. But it has since spread to refer to any form of influence that one disagrees with. At first conjured up as some « mysterious oriental device», it is now understood as an organized form of influencing individuals, groups or masses.
33. Skinhead groups (of Central Europe) are well run. They distribute propaganda printed by American neo-Nazis in various languages and send out «skinzines» illegally through the post.
34. Armed skinheads, chanting «Sieg Heil», mounted «a revenge raid» on black people in a London suburb, an Old Bailey jury was told yesterday.
Between 30 and 100 white youths, some with their heads shorn almost bald attacked about 100 to 150 black people in cinema queue in Woolwich.
35. Not content with slogans inciting to violence, some of the demonstrators acted in the tradition of the American lynchers. Spotting a longhaired youth, they jumped off their lorry shouting: «Get him, kill him, he is a beatnik, he burnt our flag.»
36. The Minister of Economy need not conclude that the British worker is too cussed to fit into an economic plan, or that he will inevitably frustrate labour mobility. But grandiose general statement in Whitehall about «shaking out labour» and redeployment are only convincing if they are accompanied by practical measures to make the intention a reality.
37. In July a team of U. munications specialists moved into the country almost at the very moment the first contingents of «blue helmets» were deplaning at the Leopoldville airport.
38. The biggest teach-in for London Telephone Region engineers is to be launched early next year.
39. Workers on strike in several enterprises have occupied their plants and are staying day and night. The first to start the sit-in and sleep-in strike were the workers of the nationally owned Sud-Aviation plant at Nantes.
40. He indicated in his statement that lowering the U. S. profile appears to be a reasonable approach to the problem.
41. He himself is doubtless aware the low-profile concept still leaves a number of questions unanswered. Some of the most pertinent.
42. The President indicated in his statement that lowering the U. S. profile appears to involve a process of drawing up a list spelling out when the United States will—and when it will not interfere in Asia...
43. All of this adds up to what in diplomatic jargon has come to be known as the Administration's «low-profile» Asian policy. Boiled down to its essentials, low profile means that the U. S. will seek maximum influence at minimum risk.
44. President of the Czeck Republic yesterday had dinner with the Queen at the start of a high-profile trip intended to honour his role in leading his country to democracy.
45. Buy Malaysia! Well, that is what some high-profile brokerages are suddenly telling clients. An expected easing of the capital controls is the chief reason behind the change of heart.
46. High-profile miscarriages of justice persuaded many judges, lawyers and politicians that courts, no matter how careful, could never avoid executing some innocent people.
47. The Russian National Orchestra has the highest profile, if only because its independence gives it freedom of maneuver.
48. The administration should put people to work by spending on livingly, not weaponry.
49. The picture of a European economy in perpetual decline is a caricature. For example, American punditry has ignored the one-time effect of German unification in slowing European growth.
50. In the journalistic labeling game, any political scandal touching the presidency is now a Something-Gate.
51. Israel's rancorous election campaign was rocked Wednesday by a break-in at the Washington offices of a US political pollster advising Ehud Barak. The incident, which the Israeli media likened to Watergate, threatened to overshadow the opening of a Labor Party convention.
52. The top spot on Mr. Blackwell's list of the worst-dressed women has gone to Linda Tripp. She has a look that makes her the « Starr» of her very own «Stylegate,» the former fashion director said.
53. Labour accused Mr. King of blatant electioneering as he placed the crucial order for short range air-to-air missiles. Labour defence spokesman said: «It will come as a relief to the work force of those companies. Whether it will come as a relief to the Conservative candidates in those seats, it will remain to the election day to find out.»
54. Another example of infortainment is docudrama, where real events are dramatised and reenacted by actors.
55. The authors of the housing association report stress that their guidelines are not about ghettoisation or segregation, but are intended to promote intergration of minority cultures into mainstream Britain.
56. Mr. Bauer's think-tank was created by James Dobson, a plutocratic televangelist; not surprisingly he maintains that Republican policies should rest on religious conservatism.
57. Mr. Gate's presence threw Hong Kong into a technotizzy as the government announced a lot of Singapore rivalling projects, from a $1.6 billion «cyberport» to efforts to make Hong Kong the region's e-commerce hub.
58. The drift towards virtue, along with a new code of conduct for Eurocrats published this week, is welcome.
59. «Eurospeak is a separate in-house language, full of jargon, acronyms, abstractions — and a lot of it is gobbledygook», — said a British translator. He and others have begun a drive called «Fight the Fog» to prod officials into producing clear sentences.»
60. American Eurosceptics accuse the European allies of being free riders on American-provided security.
61. Just as European anti-Americanism damaged Western solidarity during the Cold War, so American Eurobashing threatens to unravel Transatlantic cooperation in the post-Cold War era.
62. The President will do almost anything to get the press cameras lined up in the White House for pictures of him bringing two bitter adversaries together [Israel and PLO]. He needs a foreign policy success or, more to the point, something that looks like a success. We have come to call this «photo-op diplomacy.»
63. Photo-op diplomacy lacks an important ingredient — credibility.
64. Clinton's defenders have transformed the Washington version of truth — telling into a subtle new form and demonstrated, for any who might have forgotten, how easy it is to manipulate the press — and, ultimately, the public.
The latest peek at the tricks of the trade comes from Lanny Davis, a former White House lawyer and one of Clinton's chief spin doctors during the 1997 congressional inquiries into alleged campaign fund-raising abuses.
65. Another device for ensuring that bad news got a good spin was what Davis calls «deep-background private placement»: telling tales to a hand-picked reporter or news organization.
66. Davis admits that all the spin had limited effect. «There is no way to spin the public away from the presumption of guilt when a public official is accused of scandal,» Davis tells US News.
67. Sometimes the world of spin is more than an inside-the-beltway game.
68. Through his refusal to follow the diktats of the spin-doctors and public relations consultants who dominate White Hall and Westminster when Parliament is in session, the Deputy Prime Minister has transformed his own image for the better.
69. All the spin-doctoring in the world will not preserve the Government's present popularity.
70. Something odd is happening to political correctness (speech code). On the one hand it is thriving. On the other hand its opponents are thriving too.
71. Some dismiss (the language of) political correctness (PC) as an irrelevance hyped up by the right; others see it as a leftist danger to the very fabric of American life; still others argue that it is plain passe. Is America in the throes of new-PC, anti-PC or post PC? It is hard to tell.
72. Few diseases have been as politicised as AIDS. And in few other cases is political correctness such a danger to the disease's victims.
73. Single-issue activists, incensed by human wrongs in Burma or religious persecution in Tibet, increasingly drive American foreign policy.
74. Both single-issue activism and the casual treatment of allies can hurt America. The single-issue crowd fails to consider the cost to America of taking sanctions against each injustice that it cares about.
75. Less welcome is the harsh political fact that pragmatists have trouble building constituencies, especially in this era of single-issue politics.
76. Cellular phones are perhaps one of the most user-friendly devices modern technology has devised. However, can you imagine the potential stored within?
77. In general, the regional parties [in India] are investor-friendly.
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