Boom/Powerplay Records

Still hanging on, but Blair emerges with no credit from the past 12 months POWERPLAY POWERPLAY IAIN MACWHIRTER ON THE PM'S YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY . . . IAIN MACWHIRTER ON THE PM'S YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY . . . AND A SOLITARY PRINCIPLED POLITICIAN
The Sunday Herald; 12/24/2006; 1290 words; ...house prices cannot rise forever. But no serious economic commentator questions the chancellor's record. He promised and delivered an end to boom and bust. This was his golden legacy to himself. But in 2006, there were real questions about...

Supping at the last chancellor saloon POWERPLAY IAIN MACWHIRTER believes it's time a bored Gordon Brown hung up his red case and found another job . . . like leader of a Labour Party increasingly disillusioned by Tony Blair
The Sunday Herald; 3/20/2005; 1411 words; ...come back down to earth. As must the record trillion in personal indebtedness run up by consumers during the housing boom. For all the Chancellor's genius...five years, and Britain has run up a record balance-of-trade deficit. This...

Braveheart Blunkett shows he's no dope; powerplay
The Sunday Herald; 10/28/2001; 1381 words; ...never be the same again. It is the final triumph of the baby boom generation, which now occupies much of the British establishment...the present situation where possession can lead to a criminal record and loss of career. Middle-class parents, worried their...

AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - JAN 18, 2000.
AsiaPulse News; 1/18/2000; 1165 words; ...crisis; Port Melbourne property sector booms. Page 2: Index; News in brief. Page...attention. Finance: AGL in $700 million powerplay for Transalta New Zealand; US Federal...GST on laybuys collected after July 1; Record crowd at the Australian Open; Sub standard...

Taking a swipe at mystique of powerplay.
The Birmingham Post (England); 1/22/1998; 1114 words; ...still plays, has been at the sharp end of the technological boom that has caused many students of the game to wonder, in effect...alas, was unwitnessed and so the feat does not appear in the record books. Not many of the world's top sporting events you can...