It seems a pity that a country which used to rely on convention should need to depend increasingly on rules to keep politics honest especially if Lord Neill's hunch that there has in fact been no deterioration in standards is right.

ECONOMIST: A very British sleazebuster

As Peter Timmer, a fellow at the Centre for Global Development, points out, Asian nations were too big to rely on food imports and too proud to depend indefinitely on the food aid America offered in return for loyalty in the cold war.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

Approaches that rely on operations performed by the user have a fatal flaw beyond the need to recognize what actions are required: they depend on computer input devices controlled by software which can be exploited in the same way that a remote desktop application does.

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