Word: benne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Callaghan is expected to step down some time within the year and retire to his Sussex farm. At that point, analysts believe, he will try to ensure the succession for his fellow moderate, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, 61, over the other probable contender, Tony Benn, 53, chieftain of the party's militant left wing. But Callaghan also squelched any unseemly haste among aspiring successors by insisting that "there is no vacancy...
Dunster House began selling carnations last Thursday to raise money for the house council, Lloyd Benn '80, a member of the council said last night. "We sold about 150 carnations in all, and then delivered them to the doors of Dunster residents with notes from the senders. People didn't buy as much as we had expected--we lost a little money," he said...
Callaghan's left-wing Energy Secretary, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, proposes instead to use North Sea revenues to raise the budget of the National Enterprise Board to $1.9 billion a year, more than triple the present figure. The N.E.B. makes loans and grants to industries strapped for investment capital. Benn's scheme is opposed by Labor moderates and the Confederation of British Industry; both see it as promoting further government intrusion in private industry. Yet some way must be found to channel oil revenues toward the modernization of industry if Britain is to meet consumer demand and remain competitive in world...
...Benn Bronzes and Ivory Masks--Douglas Fraser in the Fogg Christian Room from...
...relieved. Le Monde estimated that by increasing coal production and reducing consumption, the U.S. could realize 55% of the possible energy savings for the entire industrialized world. Concluded the Paris newspaper: "These nations can therefore say, 'At last!' " A senior aide to British Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn commented, "It's an act of considerable courage for the leader of the largest energy user in the world to set out policies for conservation on such a scale...