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  Gordon Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was elected to Parliament as a Labour MP for Dunfermline East in 1983, becoming opposition spokesman on Trade and Industry in 1985, then Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, before becoming Shadow Chancellor in 1992.
After the UK Local Government elections in May 2006, where Labour lost 2 in 5 of their previously controlled councils, Brown has been seen to use the failure of the Labour Party to advance his own cause in preparation for leadership.
The stand-off illustrates a contrast between the parliamentary system of democracy, in which there is no theoretical limit to ministerial tenure and it is unusual for Prime Ministers to announce their date of departure in advance, and presidential systems which in which fixed terms and often term limits are the norm.
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 Orkney_Islands
Excepting on the west coasts of the larger islands, which present rugged cliff scenery remarkable both for beauty and for colouring, the group lies somewhat low and is of bleak aspect.
The Orkney Islands are represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom as part of the Orkney and Shetland constituency, which elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
In the Scottish Parliament the Orkney Islands are themselves the Orkney constituency, which elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post system.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/o/or/orkney_islands.html   (2704 words)

  
 newsBlog | Campaign for an English Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Scottish Parliament threw out the same proposal; your constituents have their own Scottish Health Service and are not affected by what you seek to impose on England.
The Scottish parliament has imposed top up fees on UK students from outside Scotland to discourage ‘fee refugees’ from places like England applying to Scottish universities to avoid the top up fees introduced in their own countries.
The North West Regional Assembly is to be strengthened according to proposals by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and Moreton councillor Simon Mountney says he fears this will undermine the protection of Green Belt areas in the borough.
www.thecep.org.uk /news/Main.asp?YearMonth=200508   (4342 words)

  
 Everything about Geopolitics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In the West during the 20th century, the discipline of geography went through four major phases: environmental determinism, regional geography, the quantitative revolution, and critical geography.
He was elected to Parliament in 1910 as Unionist Party member for the Glasgow Camlachie constituency and was defeated in 1922.
It lies between 116° 40' and 126° 34' E. longitude, and 4° 40' and 21° 10' N. latitude, and is bordered on the east by the Philippine Sea, on the west by the South China Sea, and on the south by the Celebes Sea.
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 Muslim Communities in Europe: Britain
He has served as joint-convenor of the UK Action Committee on Islamic Affairs, and was elected the founding Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain (1998-2000).
He is the Liberal Democrat MEP for the North West of England, elected in 2004.
Bashir Maan was a President of Glasgow Central Mosque and a founding spirit behind the formation of the Muslim Council of Britain in 1997.
www.salaam.co.uk /themeofthemonth/september03_index.php?l=9   (12135 words)

  
 Vita.html
Member of the Training, Mobility, Research (TMR) network for studying Political Representation and Party Choice in Europe (funded by the European Commission), and Instructor at the TMR Winterschools in Amsterdam, 1999 and 2001; Louvaine-La-Neuf, 2000 and 2002.
Member of the Study Group on Dimensions of Contestation in the European Union, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Center for European Studies, 1998-2002.
Member of the (elected) British Study of Parliament Group, 1970-; academic convener of a Study Group on Parliamentary Questions, 1986-92.
www2.trincoll.edu /~mfrankli/Vita.html   (5244 words)

  
 66th IFLA General Conference - Conference Programme and Proceedings - 13-18 August 2000
A recent World Trade Organization panel in which exemptions in the US Copyright Act are brought into question is one example of the increasing importance of intellectual content in the context international trade agreements.
Guest Lecturer Steven Shrybman (West Coast Enviromental Law, Vancouver, Canada) will discuss the implications of this trend from his perspective as a lawyer, author and trade activist.
First, Larry Alford, Deputy University Librarian at the University of North Carolina, U.S., will provide some general background on the issues from the particular perspective of a university research library.
www.ifla.org /IV/ifla66/66cp.htm   (9557 words)

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