And when, in 1958, a formidable new class of liberal Democrats entered the Senate including Edmund Muskie, Eugene McCarthy, and Philip Hart the legislative machinery began to produce reform.

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Sunday had started with a similar sense of inevitability that Ramprakash would convert his overnight score of 63 into the 109th first-class hundred of his formidable career - and he did not disappoint.

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He has formidable intellectual powers: possessor of a first-class degree, ex-president of the Oxford Union, and an ex-consultant with McKinsey.

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And, just as individual economic advances have added up to rival the effect of the formidable regular IT industry, these minute advances in total can create world-class business opportunities.

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