Last fall, at the end of its term, King Abdullah dissolved Parliament, the lower house of which is popularly elected, and has yet to call new elections.

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Although this was still well above the 2% target, the Bank of England governor, Mervyn King, said in a letter to the chancellor that inflation was set to fall "materially" below the target rate in the second half of 2009.

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When Mervyn King recently said that the fall in the exchange rate was helpful the governor of the Bank of England was merely stating an obvious truth.

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Still in Maine this fall, finding an King hater is like unearthing a Yankee hater in the team's hometown of New York.

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