The Civil List was cut back and now only the Queen, Prince Philip and the Queen Mother are supported by the taxpayer.
The Civil List, which dates from 1760, and the grants paid for travel and upkeep of palaces are to be replaced by a single Sovereign Grant from 2013.
And with money for the Royal Family, the Civil List, frozen and a levy imposed on the banks too, the government will say that their mantra -'We are all in this together' - has substance, and is not mere political spin.
But, but it's sort of, it's a sort of no-win situation isn't it, because there are, there are editorials from time to time in the papers saying the younger Royals should jolly well earn their own living and not be on the Civil List, they should go out and get a job and like the rest of us have to.
At the same time that the EEOC is practically rewriting the law to add "criminal offender" to the list of protected groups under civil-rights statutes, the agency refuses to disclose whether it uses criminal background checks for its own hiring.
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Failure to file an FBAR may, under the law, result in civil penalties, criminal penalties or both (the list of potential penalties that may apply is distressingly long).
The banned list was uncovered by civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch through a Freedom of Information request.
Look at history, and you can see the religious left at the heart of America's great social-reform movements, from the fight against slavery to the New Deal to the civil-rights movement (for some reason, Prohibition is usually left off the list).
Those who fell foul of him included politicians (Jonathan Aitken, Jeffrey Archer, Reginald Maudling), union leaders (Clive Jenkins), architects (John Poulson), journalists (notably his boss at the Mirror, David Montgomery), businessmen (the list is long), as well as disc jockeys, civil servants and countless others.
Over the past 20 years, that list has expanded to include a significant commitment to support civil authorities and to develop the capabilities of partner countries.
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The list of dead journalists, campaigners for civil liberties and those who seriously harm the interests of over-mighty state officials is getting longer by the day.
Once released then these persons should be on the list becasue of being label a pedophile via civil committment.
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Even before the INS memo became public, the American Civil Liberties Union released a document setting forth a list of constitutional rights it said that even non-U.S. citizens are entitled to when they face questioning by law enforcement officials, such as the right to an attorney.
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Those claims were laid out in greater detail Monday as William Lerach , the lead attorney for Enron shareholders, released a 500-page amended civil complaint adding nine investment banks and two law firms to the list of defendants, which already included Andersen and Duncan.
To guard against that risk, the UN's International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has just held a summit in Montreal, at which it divided the long list of ATM modernisation projects into manageable chunks, on which the world's aviation authorities will try to agree standards, one at a time.
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