MPs favour Lord Wakeham's proposal for an upper house of great and good people, nominated by a committee of the same, with at most a third of its members elected.
In Wisconsin, where Gov. Scott Walker made it easier for employees to opt out of state government unions, the American Federation of Teachers lost over a third of its members last year.
Because the Senate only elects one-third of its members (to six-year terms) in each two-year election cycle, many Senators are insulated against the ebb and flow of voter attitudes about how government works.
Though its supporters are still mainly white, a third of its 60 members of parliament are now black or coloured (mixed-race), as were many of its candidates in these local polls.
The Predictor, now in its third season, allows members of the public to challenge the BBC Scotland football pundits at their own game.
More than half of its customers are now people who are 55 and older, and a third of the members are retired, he said.
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Distinguished alumni include a third of the current members of Lebanon's cabinet, a quarter of its members of parliament, the central bank governor and foreign minister of Jordan, and the Bush administration's hawkish special envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad.
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The manufacturers' organisation, the EEF, said that the Bank's decision to act now, before the third-quarter estimates of GDP and its latest inflation forecast were released, "would indicate that members believed immediate action was warranted in order to head off a deteriorating growth outlook".
The report, with its mix of two thirds spending cuts and one third tax hikes, received support from 11 of 18 members, but no votes from House Republicans on the panel who opposed the tax increases.
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