However a number of high-profile initiatives, including a London-wide public cycle hire scheme and a plan for a new railway link across the city, soon won him praise.
But by blaming the privatisation of the overground railways for last year's train crash in Paddington, and by wilfully misinterpreting Mr Blair's scheme as a plan to privatise the Tube, Mr Livingstone has shown a cynical (and politically brilliant) willingness to pander to popular prejudices, while keeping the left on his side.
Opposition and civil society activists say the impeachment is just the latest scheme in a government plan to bully the judiciary and lawyers.
Finance Minister Jane Hutt said the scheme was part of a plan for growth and jobs announced in May.
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And so he asked Douglass to embark upon what he called a John Brown scheme, meaning that Douglass would formulate a plan in which he would gather together some hand-picked men, raid the South, bring as many blacks to northern alliance as possible.
Mr Obama disappointed liberals by ruling out a single-payer system and dropping the public option (a plan for a government-run scheme to compete with the insurance companies).
But his boldest move is a plan to create a social-security scheme by 2010.
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Several hundred American troops have been operating at Colombian bases for almost a decade under Plan Colombia, a fairly successful aid scheme under which the United States has provided training and intelligence help against Colombia's drugs and guerrillas.
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Christine Mahoney of Mercer Consulting reckons that the cost of funding a 60-year-old employee in a DB scheme is 12% of payroll, whereas in a DC plan it is just 6%.
Residents at Whittlesey rejected a scheme by Tesco on Tuesday night as Sainsbury's plan included a 54-acre (22 hectares) country park.
By then, campaigners for a northern assembly hope to have completed their scheme to set up a constitutional convention to devise a plan for northern regional government.
Despite official reluctance to push a national scheme, the Manchester plan suggests that the government is still committed to road pricing, if not for the country as a whole then at least for its big cities.
They are one step ahead of the government, which has reacted with fumbling confusion, abruptly launching an austerity plan and a vague scheme for labour-market reform, only to withdraw bits of both at the first cheep of protest.
The homes plan is part of a scheme to find locations for new housing and businesses over the next 15 to 20 years.
So there's sure to be much interest in September when more than 200 private colleges begin offering the Independent 529 Plan--a complicated new scheme that lets you prepay a child's private college tuition at a discount to today's rates.
Beijing opposes an EU plan that international airlines comply with a scheme to tackle carbon emissions.
For a truly spectacular case of regional uproar, look at the national water plan unveiled in September, a huge scheme to transfer a cubic kilometre of water a year from (mainly) the Ebro, in the north, to the dry south-east.
The fourth pillar of the plan would make everyone a stakeholder in the scheme by overhauling the outdated power grid system.
Some senior members of Kibbutz Sdot Yam have started working on a plan to move the commune toward some sort of privatization scheme.
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The basic problem is this: whereas an American employee can move from New York to Florida and stay in the same corporate pension scheme, a Belgian worker transferred to France has to join a separate French plan.
Part of the problem is that each health plan covers prescriptions using a different formulary and cost-sharing scheme, so consumers often only see what the co-pay is.
If the scheme had worked, they would actually have saved significantly more by having a sketchy plan to beat California, than they would have saved by just moving to Florida.
Speaking on the Sunday Politics show in the West Midlands, Labour MP for Wolverhampton North East Emma Reynolds described the plan as a "pie-in-the-sky scheme that doesn't really seem viable".
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Mr Obama, of course, had called for such an overarching plan, in the form of a cap-and-trade scheme for all big sources of emissions, only to be rebuffed by the Senate, thanks not just to Republicans but to a number of conservative Democrats too.
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Had it gone bankrupt, then the pension scheme might have fallen into the hands of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), a collective-insurance plan.
They have done so at a time when Texas's redistricting plan has stirred controversy and when the Colorado courts have just struck down a local gerrymandering scheme.
Yossi Beilin, a prominent dove and one of the original architects of the Oslo peace plan, disclosed the scheme on Wednesday November 18th and Mr Netanyahu's people did not deny it.
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