The backing of a former senior mandarin is significant, not least because Lord O'Donnell admits to having spent most of his career in an environment in which measures of gross domestic product were the dominant metric for judging national success.
In a conversation a couple of months back with a senior White House official, we were talking about the fiscal showdown politics, and I was emphasizing that there would be a serious civil war in the Democratic party if Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid were cut -- that our side wasn't going to back down on this fight.
The rebate is supposed to make up the shortfall between what Britain pays toward the European Union budget and what it gets back, but a senior member of the European Commission said in recent days that the British rebate was no longer justified as Britain was more prosperous than during the 1980s.
Given the commissioner's recent sharp, stark stance -- he made the above claim just 10 months ago -- even an implied causal connection four years back from the lips of a senior league official seems worth noting.
The end pages on my copy are crammed with song titles; they resemble the back of a popular girl's senior yearbook.
Furner's try, on the back of a Herculean charge from Senior, suggested that Leeds's heroic defensive effort was going to pay off.
Although his former boss is holding back, a senior member of the younger Bush's administration, John Bolton is to campaign for Romney in Baltimore on Sunday ahead of Maryland's primary.
A future kit based on Flora will create video displays on the back of a jacket, says Phillip Torrone, a senior editor at Make magazine and creative director at Adafruit.
An article on Nov. 13 about the prowess of the Phillipsburg High School football team misstated the surname of a senior running back.
JERUSALEM — The initial nods, winks and pats on the back here over the assassination last month of a senior Hamas official in Dubai are turning to puzzlement and concern as mounting evidence, including extensive surveillance videos, points to a remarkably clumsy operation many Israelis deem unworthy of their intelligence service, Mossad.
