EDX =Energy Dispersive X-ray Detector 能量弥散 X 射线探测器
- It has ruled out pledges for extra spending on training, infrastructure and industrial support policies. Mr Clarke reconvened EDX early in an effort to push through a rapid endorsement by the full cabinet of another tough spending round.
- Instead, much of his role as holder of the Treasury purse-strings has been taken over by something with the appropriately sinister name of EDX, the new cabinet committee established to consider the competing departmental claims.
- He hinted strongly that restraints on public sector pay rises were almost certain to be part of the equation now being examined by Mr Lamont's so-called EDX committee on the expenditure round.