Carlos Hank González – who coined the phrase "A poor politician is a bad politician" – was then the city's governor; he pulled off some wildly lucrative deals, developed a vast network of arterial roads known as ejes viales, and simultaneously demolished most of the streets with central reservations, setting in motion a public policy that still snubs pedestrians and cyclists to this day.
Bush announced the ouster of defense chief Donald Rumsfeld and set in motion a new Iraq policy.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest 2.39pm BST Jo Swinson, Danny Alexander, Nick Clegg, Lorely Burt and Vince Cable vote on a policy motion.
Delegates also backed an amendment to a policy motion to ensure child benefit would not be means-tested or taxed.
Finally, along with my colleague David Boyle I have a policy motion of my own at this conference.
Bob Russell, the MP for Colchester, spoke out against public sector cuts earlier today during a policy motion that called on Lib Dem ministers to ensure the most vulnerable in society were not "disproportionately affected" by the government's austerity measures.
"None of the accused here ever soiled his hands with blood," Mr. Cayley said, "but all set in motion a series of policies which unleashed an ocean of blood".
Mark Pack, co-editor of the blog Liberal Democrat Voice, cites a conference motion and policy paper calling for a revival of mutualisation and co-ops in the NHS, local government, and large private companies as potentially giving a distinctively Liberal Democrat approach to both public sector improvement and more generally, the distribution of power between the state, corporations and individuals.
In its early days, the Bush administration set in motion a review of Iraq policy, but it dragged on without much direction, so that by Sept. 11 the Bush policy on Iraq was essentially the one inherited from the Clinton administration.
In 2006, Parliament rejected Ms. Haller's motion and has since pursued a policy of wait and watch.
