The ALP will have to choose between the simple comforts of blanket opposition, risking irrelevance, or decide to articulate a bold plan for progressively balancing the budget in order to win back the trust of voters.
Sitting outdoors on a blanket, or risking heatstroke by trying to jog, struck me as a sign of insecurity, the same strivings that led Houstonians to tell visitors how "culturally vibrant" and "global" the city was.
While new housing is a good thing, this blanket policy risks losing places for people to work as well as to live.
This summary of their remarks from Tiernan Ray of Barron's is not exactly aglow with superlatives:Alan Blinder, Princeton University: The TARP spread a security blanket, tamping down risk spreads, and so in that sense it was successful.
"It is reasonable to consider raising the state pension age as overall life expectancy goes up – but, as a blanket approach, it risks leaving many people facing serious problems in later life through no fault of their own.
And that brings us to the trouble with a blanket boycott: it risks hurting the readers who want to get to the good stuff, rather than the company that publishes all of it, the nectar along with the dreck.
The liquid blanket is low-risk technology and provides effective neutron moderation and shielding, excellent heat removal, and a tritium breeding ratio ≥ 1.1.
Mr Harvie said UKIP was "well off the radar in Scotland", but added: "There's a real risk that blanket coverage of Farage and co in England will give it a boost here that it does not merit.
"You can't have a blanket prohibition on proven risk- management techniques".
The significant benefits in mortality were seen despite blood pressure and total cholesterol measurements that would not have merited blanket treatment for cardiovascular risk according to Quality and Outcomes Framework or other target-driven guidelines (5).
