Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current campaign for Parliament, the Tories, the Labor Party and the Social Democratic-Liberal Party Alliance are fielding a total of 27 nonwhite candidates. Virtually assured of winning are Lawyer Paul Boateng, who was born in Ghana; local Council Leader Bernie Grant, a Guyanan; and former local Councilor Diane Abbott, who was born in London of West Indian parents. All are Labor candidates in London constituencies with substantial Labor majorities. More than 30% of the districts' voters are nonwhite...
...Abbott, 33, a Cambridge history graduate and now a press officer for the local council in Lambeth, says her politics was influenced by U.S. civil rights activists. "People like me in their 30s had our ideas shaped by Angela Davis and the black-power movement," she says. Grant, who heads the local council in Haringey, has been unflatteringly labeled Barmy Bernie by conservative tabloids. It was he who declared that police had been given a "bloody good hiding" after a 1985 race riot in Tottenham during which a patrolman was hacked to death. Grant has since kept a relatively...
More and more companies that have imposed restrictions on smoking are attempting to help their employees kick the habit. BMC Software, a Texas company that prohibits smoking on the job, has sent employees to antismoking hypnosis sessions. Abbott Laboratories hires smokers but strongly urges them to sign a pledge to take a company-sponsored workshop that teaches people how to stop smoking. The five sessions cost employees $30, but if they stay off cigarettes for four months, Abbott refunds the money...
...film The Philadelphia Experiment, a youth is hurtled from the 1940s into the present. He finds solace in a motel, watching Abbott and Costello reruns. Then he switches to a Reagan press conference. "Allison," he says to a friend, "I know this guy. Is this another movie?" Her answer: "No, David, this is not a movie...
...follow-up to their wildly popular parlor pastime? Answer: the World According to UBI, a Q&A treasure-hunt game played on a geographical map, which went on sale last week in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston and Philadelphia for $35. This time Trivial Masterminds Scott & Abbott and Chris and John Haney wanted to come up with something too complicated to copy. Says Chris: "We got kind of cheesed off by the Trivial Pursuit knockoffs appearing all over the world and decided to try something with a little inspiration." The result is almost as arcane to explain as Dungeons...