This may prove to be the first of a long line of political concessions with economic consequences.
People tolerated it: they considered it the price of economic growth, the cost of doing business, the quickest way to win a contract (or just get a telephone line), a perk of political power.
If development programs are curtailed their absence will not be noticed on the battlefield because the weapons they would have yielded are not yet there, and the programs usually have a small domestic political footprint due to the absence of a production line and articulated supplier base.
Which brings us back to the introduction: are the TUC pushing an economic or political line with a careful presentation of statistics or are they intentionally misleading with a presentation of incorrect statistics?
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The Mail on Sunday reported that Mr Mitchell could be in line for a political comeback as Britain's next EU commissioner when Baroness Ashton finishes her term as foreign affairs envoy next year.
More than 27, 000 people fit that definition, according to Political Money Line, a tracking service for money in politics.
The man who once did so much to coarsen political debate has developed a nice line in feline subtlety.
What today showed is that 14 individuals, with different interests, different levels of expertise and different political objectives cannot sustain a single line of inquiry.
From a US domestic political perspective, the third line of attack against Gingrich's factual statement has been the most significant.
The figures right now, with Gore leading by a small but steady margin, are right in line with the predictions of seven political scientists' models unveiled at a conference in September, all of which predicted a Gore victory.
Crude oil looks to be a more conservative play for 2011, and will trade in line with the monthly economic statistics unless political events cause a sudden volatility on the upside.
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"If by that they mean we shouldn't try to claim a direct line to God for one particular political party, they could not be more right, " the PM said.
He is now competing against his cousin Ghazan Khan, a political newcomer whose affiliation with a hard-line religious party, Jamaat-i-Islami, could be the exception to the rule when it comes to party ideology trumping family ties.
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But Bergoglio stuck to a more traditional line, discouraging his fellow Jesuits from political activism.
Rupert was quite clear about his editorial influence: He was a "traditional proprietor" for his UK tabloids, the Sun and the News of the World, exercising editorial control over which political party to back in a general election or what line to take on major policy issues like Europe.
Citizens may hesitate to engage in political discussion on line for fear of being tagged and put into a marketing database.
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Ironically, Juwono could count himself among the civilians who, though not in line for the presidency, has been mentioned as a candidate for political service.
It is no political mystery why the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has taken such a hard line on a Greek bail-out and hinted that the worst-behaved countries should face expulsion from the euro.
It was a way of separating sentiment from success, of triaging those whose campaigns could survive a long and often brutal political battle, of betting on horses not at the starting line, but as they pass each quarter-mile marker.
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Let me say of myself and almost everyone I know in the press, all the chattering classes and political strategists and inside dopesters of the Amtrak Acela Line: We live in a bubble and have around us bubble people.
But it wasn't made in haste and it's a line of attack Plaid clearly believe, in turn, they can turn to their political advantage.
"We believe the front-line career employees that made the decisions acted out of a desire for efficiency and not out of any political and partisan viewpoint, " the commissioner wrote.
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