The more so because the Barnes's future too often seemed to be hostage to other agendas.

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So Message Two is essential: If science itself is the enemy, the environmentalists cannot then use it to buttress other agendas like global warming.

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Some liberal political activists are advocating using Washington's new powers to pursue other agendas, such as forcing tighter emissions curbs or mandating costly health insurance coverage.

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That said, there are clearly other agendas at play.

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The confidence often placed in the positive effect of supply-side reforms should be balanced against the fact that the EU has implemented many supply-side initiatives over the past three decades (the 1992 program, EMU, competition reforms, Lisbon and other agendas) and yet the EU15 economies have grown at a slower rate in each decade since the 1960s.

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We've lost completely on a European army - that's actually bad for Europe because if they get this wrong they'll wreck it from the beginning anyway and we've lost on all the other agendas too - and now he's talking about bribing the people of Gibraltar with 30 million pounds to sell out their rights as British citizens.

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At other times we campaign to change agendas.

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Mr. Bharara's predecessors and others, of course, have had plenty of other ethical misdeeds to occupy their agendas, especially in Albany, where three of the last five state Senate majority leaders, including Mr. Smith, have been indicted, and where a former governor, Eliot Spitzer, was felled by a scandal involving a prostitution ring.

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Thus, the groups pushing these proposals are likely to have agendas that may not be shared with other stockholders and that are focused on issues other than investment return.

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But while the news agendas battle one another, what about the other programmes?

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Like it or not, today's cities are the muddled product, among other things, of speed, greed, outmoded social agendas and ill-suited postmodern aesthetics.

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