Word: england
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ford spent his final years living in England and Florida. He joined Sotheby's, the art auction house, as vice chairman, and he sat on the board of directors of a local bank. He continued to work for his old company and at the time of his death was head of the finance committee of the board of directors. To the end, he remained as secure as ever. After all, his name was on the building...
...usual, James Ivory evokes the past -- in this case, Edwardian England -- prettily enough. But having achieved a personal best in A Room with a View, he reverts to form here. That means too reverential a regard for his literary sources (which in this minor case is unnecessary) and no respect at all for screen dynamics. He remains trapped in the same guilty spirit in which Forster wrote...
...these sad days, filthy lucre is the mother of innovation. The preponderance of American accents in Parliament is yet another cunning British scheme to milk its antiquity for all that it is worth. Not content with turning the entire country into its meager conception of a tourist's paradise, England has gone it one better and changed its government to suit the times. Penury again is the cause of change...
Although Miller said he devotes several hours each day to the campaign, he said college campaigns outside of New England work more closely with their individual state coordinators...
About one out of twelve black Americans carries a single gene for sickle-cell anemia. That trait, doctors have long believed, is basically benign, since the blood disorder strikes only when two defective genes are present. But a report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine challenges this assumption. In a study of more than 2 million military recruits, doctors at Washington's Armed Forces Institute of Pathology found that sickle-cell carriers run 40 times the normal risk of sudden death when they undergo the rigors of basic training. The danger appears to increase with...