His formal campaign launch on August 9th in Brisbane, before Mr Howard and other Liberal diehards, was big on attack, slight on policy.If he wins, Mr Abbott promises to ring the leader of the Pacific island nation of Nauru and reinstate a discredited Howard-era policy of dumping boat people there.
When Mr Boehner says that Mr Obama has "sabotaged" the chances for immigration legislation, what he is saying is that his Tea-Party faction is a creature of whim and slight, uninterested in policy but hot-tempered at the merest provocation, and that the announcement of new policies has wrecked his chances of hushing the beast long enough to get some sensible legislation past it.
"That was a slight misdirection in policy," Sobusa Gula-Ndebele, the chairman of the Electoral Supervisory Commission, said in an interview.
He also hopes to be able to announce an agreement that goes some way to recognising the science behind global warming, though there is little chance of seeing more than the slightest shift in policy from America, which has refused to ratify the Kyoto treaty on climate change.On poverty reduction, Mr Blair has already had some success.
As the Pentagon Papers have revealed, this judgment had not the slightest effect upon policy.
The problem, Mr. West notes, is that this policy "slights competing priorities that are vital to the long-term future of the country".
With 16,000 members, the Greens are certainly small, and with only one MP their current influence over domestic policy is slight.
MONEY AND INTEREST RATES British government bonds (gilts) took a knock after a slight loosening of fiscal policy in the budget dimmed hopes of further interest-rate cuts.
And representatives of Wikimedia have been playing down the significance of this change, claiming it is only a slight extension of a policy that is already in place, and therefore not a wholesale re-evaluation of its founding philosophy.
That strategy was intended to prevent the possibility of a slight tightening of monetary policy that would have occurred as bonds held by the Fed were paid off and money was taken out of the economy.
