The chancellor inherited a plan sketched out by Alistair Darling, his Labour predecessor, for a sizeable fiscal consolidation building up over several years.
But Exchequer Secretary David Gauke pointed out former Chancellor Alistair Darling, according to former Business Secretary Lord Mandelson's memoirs, favoured raising VAT - and challenged him to explain why "so few" Labour MPs voted against an increase in VAT last year.
Since directing and writing The 40-Year-Old Virgin in 2005, he has become a studio darling, putting out cheap, funny films that earn five to seven times their budgets.
Grace Darling and her father rowed out to rescue the crew of the SS Forfarshire in a violent storm.
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Now key executives and engineers are trickling out and heading to the Internet's latest darling, Facebook.
Mr Darling moved a step closer to spelling out the painful clampdown on public spending that lies ahead by saying he would cap pay increases in the public sector in those two years at 1%.
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Rounding out the top five is Sam Alexis Woods, the darling daughter of superstar golfer Tiger Woods and his model wife Elin Nordegren.
As Helen Darling, head of the coalition, points out, other congressional manoeuvres, such as the Patients' Bill of Rights, may also push companies towards a system that gives employees more responsibility.
Ironically, Toorale's sale could mean new life for the local Gurnu-Barkindji aboriginal people, whose forbears were pushed out of their traditional lands around the junction of the Darling and Warrego rivers, where Toorale lies.
The bottom dropped out for the fast-growing brand a darling of the investment community, retailers and consumers with a second-quarter report released in August where the company changed its outlook from expecting a revenue growth of no less than 30 percent for 2011 and an EBITDA margin of minimum 40 percent with flat revenue and EBITDA margins in the low thirties for the year.
Grace Darling received national attention in 1838 when she rowed out to help survivors of the shipwrecked SS Forfarshire during a storm.
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She has pretty much carved out a music career single-handedly, becoming something of a darling of the folk-bluegrass-country set.
The BBC understands Chancellor Alistair Darling will propose later that in future bonuses be paid out over five years and only in stock options.
The concerns of some may be eased by Alistair Darling, the chancellor of the exchequer, who fleshed out plans to shake up banking regulation in a speech to bankers on June 18th.
But Alistair Darling has decided he's got to make a virtue out of necessity.
Having bailed out HBOS, an overextended property lender, just last year, Mr Darling may hesitate to plunge further into that line of business.
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But when the sub-prime mortgage market turned sour, the darling of the financial markets became the Black Hole equation, sucking money out of the universe in an unending stream.
Mr Darling does his best to put a favourable gloss on Labour's performance, pointing out that Britain has one of the lowest levels of debt among big economies.
Alistair Darling, his successor, had to junk them in late 2008 as the public finances careered out of control.
Mr Darling has also stuck broadly to his plan to bring the public finances back into balance, first set out a year ago and then made tougher in the budget.
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