Currency experts expect the pound to remain relatively weak for some time amid uncertainty over the UK's future trading relationships, and as the Bank of England hints at another interest rate cut on top of August's move to a record low in official borrowing costs of 0.25%.
Where Franco-German partnership continued, it was based on things the countries agreed on anyway opposition to the Iraq war, rejection of radical farm reform, dislike of José Manuel Barroso as president of the European Commission.Paradoxically, unanimity of opinion reduced the duo's influence: others treated them as just another interest group, albeit a big one.
No wonder Mr Blair increasingly seems to regard his party as just another interest group which has to be either appeased or confronted.Gordon's grousesThe most interesting question is whether that includes Gordon Brown.
"One thing that seems to be going on with these historically excluded groups," he said, "is that they come to be thought of as just another interest group.
The result is that it's easier to dismiss unions as just another interest group, enjoying perks that most workers cannot get.
61 But, argues Kim, physicians 'not infrequently' serve in roles in which the duty of beneficence is subordinated to another interest, such as in forensic evaluations, when the doctor's primary duty is to the state.
The job figures are being closely monitored by the Federal Reserve as it weighs another interest rate hike.
Mr. Auletta concluded that "perhaps for the first time," the White House had come to view reporters as special pleaders, as if they were just another interest group and one that was "not nearly as powerful as it once was".
Instead, he used a laptop computer at home and, with his America Online account, began exchanging e-mail with an undercover investigator posing as another man interested in trading pictures of children performing sexually explicit acts, Mrs. Pirro said.
The technology industry remains another special interest, as intent as the oil and pharmaceutical sectors on maximizing profits and minimizing its obligation to pay taxes.
