This week Europe's energy ministers met in Brussels to discuss, among other things, how to liberalise national markets along British lines.
What's worth a bigger laugh -- snooty British actors reciting lines from "Jersey Shore, " or the Dramatic Chipmunk?
In fact, given the nature of the operation, coalition casualties have been light. (In a battle for Nasiriya with the Ottomans in 1915, the overconfident British, whose supply lines were also stretched thin, lost 500 men.) Iraq has suffered an unknown but far higher number of combat casualties: several hundred Iraqis were reportedly killed in an engagement at Najaf on March 25th-26th.
It is true that during WWII the BBC had broadcast coded messages to British secret agents behind enemy lines, and that some journalists had worked with MI6 in producing propaganda.
Kennedy Airport and London's Stansted Airport--but competitors are lining up, including giants British Airways, Delta Air Lines (nyse: DAL - news - people ) and American (which said it will start JFK-Stansted service with beds in October).
British Airways, American and Japan Air Lines are key partners in the Oneworld Alliance.
There were 3000 people in the building at the time, many of them working on production lines making cheap clothes for British high street shops.
The British may have an unusual number of red lines, but they are not the only ones to be laying out a tough negotiating position.
But the song builds again, the flames reach higher, and British Sea Power returns to its pumping opening lines, pushing harder and faster toward an inevitable screeching burnout.
In alphabetical order, the winners are: Air France-KLM, AMR Corporation (American Airlines, American Eagles), British Airways, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Japan Airlines, Lufthansa, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and US Airways.
The British form appears to be muddier, along the lines of an English hillclimb.
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And not only will there be a potential shortage of cash during the Olympics, ATM lines are likely to grow along with British sticker shock and currency confusion for tourists.
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Unorthodox from the start, the SAS was conceived as a commando force to operate behind enemy lines in North Africa, where the British were fighting Field Marshall Rommel's highly-skilled Afrika Korps.
It doesn't consist of much more than 10 lines, mostly yelled unintelligibly in a fake British accent.
McMillan says his lines have been copied by Chinese, Indian and British companies, but nonetheless the company won an order equal to 10% of last year's revenue from Sinopec, the state-owned Chinese oil company.
The borders of Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Lebanon were drawn up in 1916 by French and British cartographers, indifferent to the realities of tribal life straddling the new lines emerging over the desert sands.
ISPs have criticised British Telecom (BT) in the past for failing to make enough high-speed lines available to them to meet demand.
The British officer created the "Chindits" a special force who fought guerrilla-style behind Japanese lines during the Burma campaign in World War II.
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