The reaction of broad sectors of society to the government's original reform package echoes the widespread aversion to flat-rate taxation seen in EU15, and could therefore be a harbinger of things to come elsewhere in east-central Europe.

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The number of jobs where you can support a family and have a full benefit package on just a high school education, for example, those jobs are flat right now.

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The association said Flat Holm island, which is owned by the council, could be combined as a tourism package with neighbouring island Steep Holm.

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The British have suggested that, to help win Russian and Chinese agreement for tougher measures, another package of proposals might have to be put to Iran (it turned the Europeans' last lot down flat without even reading them).

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