For all its New Labour rhetoric, the Blair government has also taken active measures to discourage private insurance.
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) After a day of festivities to mark the 101st birthday of its first leader, North Korea on Tuesday offered new prickly rhetoric against the United States and South Korea, which are watching closely for signs whether it will conduct a medium-range missile test in defiance of international concerns.
The idea of the Pledge is simple enough: Make them put their no-new-taxes rhetoric in writing.
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Mr Smith proposes policies to "create a new spirit and rhetoric of fraternity and national solidarity" - a national care service, a national day or a US-style state of the British union address.
In this crisis, for Obama to now just advocate more of the same, with only new, warmed over rhetoric, is a complete abdication of leadership.
Despite some Democrats' rhetoric, big new tax increases are highly unlikely.
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They fail, first, because the grandeur of the occasion inspires new presidents and their teams to overblown rhetoric, even as their political advisers steer them away from too specific commitments.
The Halperin appointment, in short, seemed to offer early confirmation of fears that President Clinton's campaign rhetoric about being a "New Democrat" -- one who would be responsible and tough-minded about national security matters -- would prove to be little more than that, empty rhetoric.
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Both China and America should use Mr Geithner's three-day visit to set a new tone in which co-operation replaces rhetoric.
Analysts see the lawmakers' trip and Obama's campaign rhetoric as a way for the new administration to start thawing relations with Cuba before the Fifth Summit of the Americas.
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Mister Speaker, Vice President Biden, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: I come before you tonight to re-iterate my long-held view that for the sake of the nation we need a new kind of politics, stripped of heated rhetoric, petty bickering, and divisive partisanship.
Because so much of the best of New Labour, or at least of its rhetoric, can be traced back to Ken Livingstone's GLC - perhaps by no accident, as I would have bumped into at least two of Blair's top advisers roaming the corridors of County Hall: Geoff Mulgan and David Miliband.
They restated their existing stance, but what is new - that they did actually toned down their rhetoric.
Mr. SEMATI: Yeah, I think probably the single most important gift to the Bush administration and the new conservatives in Washington has been Ahmadinejad's rhetoric.
While relations between the two are at a new low, Washington insists the president's rhetoric will not affect Isaf's plans in Afghanistan, our correspondent says.
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The squabbling and deal-making that are bound to follow will confirm the complaint of many Indonesians that their new parties offer few policies, only symbolism and rhetoric.
So, despite their loud rhetoric, Farooq's critics in New Delhi may not be all that unhappy that he has undercut the appeal of Hurriyat's greater threat to the unity of India.
Leaders of the white supremacist movement are able to use their Web sites to reach a new subset of potential followers and push their racist rhetoric to the limit without outright calling for violence.
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Is America entering a new era in which ideaological oppononets rise above the rhetoric and sit down at the negotiating table to hammer out their differences in lieu of pointed media and political attacks?
Saddam has had a long time to find new hiding places, and, Clinton's rhetoric to the contrary, the Butcher of Baghdad isn't about to tell us where he is manufacturing and storing his deadly materials.
This assembly is certainly not going to support a military strike against Iran, and the United States, if it wants to work with this new assembly, needs to temper some of its rhetoric about solving a problem in Iran by military force, rather than diplomatic means.
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When combined with a series of missile launches that day and subsequently, the regime in Pyongyang has sent an unmistakable signal: The Hermit Kingdom has nothing but contempt for the so-called "international community" and the empty rhetoric and diplomatic posturing that usually precedes new rewards for the North's bad behavior.
His speech may be judged on whether he offers anything more than reheated rhetoric to jolt the becalmed peace process into new life.
" He cited preconditions including deep-seated communal grievances, poverty and new freedom of expression that enables the spread of "extremist rhetoric and hate speech.
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If Governor Andrew Cuomo still believes, as he did when he was elected, that the answer cannot be more and more taxes levied on New Yorkers, a good place to start backing his past rhetoric would be to reduce tax burdens for business owners.
Despite the week's rhetoric, there have been some welcome hints of a new realism about where Russia's real interests lie.
By demonstrating technological prowess, it would legitimize the regime's "strong and prosperous country" rhetoric and bestow prestige on North Korea's young new ruler, Kim Jong Un.
But Christopher Nelson, an Asia expert and vice-president of Samuels International Associates, points out that while the new South Korean leader has responded with tough words to Pyongyang's rhetoric, she has also indicated that if the North Koreans are willing to resume North-South talks, denuclearisation would not have to be the state end goal.
The president of the new team, Romano Prodi, has yet to come up with the vision or rhetoric that might rehabilitate European integration in the eyes of governments or voters.
In response to the State of the Union address and Obama's Wisconsin visit, new Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Wednesday that the president needs more than rhetoric to tackle high unemployment and the growing national debt.
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