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.
Just before Mr Pastrana got to Washington, the American House of Representatives had passed a measure that would cut off anti-drugs aid to Colombia if the government disrupted the coca-eradication scheme by its demilitarisation plan.
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.
Finance Minister Jane Hutt said the scheme was part of a plan for growth and jobs announced in May.
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In the scheme related to HP, the plan focused on trading derivatives (basically an agreement or option to buy or sell based on an underlying assets).
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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.
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.
But in his world, which is not the world occupied by most people, it is the trimmings around the basic pay - the bonus scheme and the long-term incentive plan - that are the real and substantial remuneration meal.
English Heritage plan to take the Blue Plaque scheme to three more cities outside the capital in the near future.
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).
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.
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.
But his boldest move is a plan to create a social-security scheme by 2010.
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Beijing opposes an EU plan that international airlines comply with a scheme to tackle carbon emissions.
Friedman assures detractors that while he identifies as politically libertarian, his plan is not an elaborate tax evasion scheme.
Fear of the refugee problem is one reason Mr Chavez has criticised Plan Colombia, an American-backed scheme which includes stepped-up military action against the drug plantations.
According to David Ness, head of health benefits at the company, roughly 14% of Medtronic's employees have enrolled in this scheme, as many as in any other health plan offered.
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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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.
Mr Fox is promoting an ambitious joint development scheme for Central America, called the Puebla-Panama Plan.
The fourth pillar of the plan would make everyone a stakeholder in the scheme by overhauling the outdated power grid system.
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.
The Greens said their "radical", but "realistic" plan for "cross-London road pricing scheme" would generate funding for step-free access, extending Tramlink and promoting cycling like in Amsterdam.
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%.
Ms Jones outlined the department's key priorities which will include the delivery of the Rural Development Plan, the effective administration of the Single Payment Scheme from the European Union (EU), and the programme to eradicate bovine TB.
His plan launches negotiations with the City Council over the spending scheme for the fiscal year that starts in July.
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