Word: geoffrey
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...given the demands on the limited federal research budget, such efforts will probably fail. Perhaps as unfortunate, notes Dr. Geoffrey Howe, a leading researcher on cancer and diet at the University of Toronto, is the fact that "political pressure is the criterion for deciding what scientific research needs to be done...
This question troubles the imagined slaves Sarah (Shegog) and Hannibal (Geoffrey Fletcher) inspired by Hansberry's first visit to the South, as they try to decide whether Hannibal should run away from slavery. The central characters from A Raisin in the Sun wrestle with the same question when they debate if they should accept a white man's money in exchange for not moving into his neighborhood. The Playwright herself wonders whether she can best serve her the cause of civil rights by writing in New York or by journeying South with the Freedom Riders...
...office." Still, the voice of that same British establishment went on in its editorial to fault Thatcher for complacency. She was blamed for failing to defuse the threat to her position that had begun 10 days earlier with the devastating resignation speech in the House of Commons by Sir Geoffrey Howe, former Deputy Prime Minister...
...political attack from the mild, mumbling Sir Geoffrey Howe, one of his parliamentary opponents once gibed, was "like being savaged by a dead sheep." Margaret Thatcher might have wished it were so as she sat rigidly, arms folded, in the House of Commons last week, listening to Howe attack her. In a speech explaining his resignation as Deputy Prime Minister earlier this month, he sounded more like a lion, and a very live one at that...
...effects of the country's psychological detachment were still on display last week when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's go-it-alone refusal to join the rest of the European Community in plans for political and monetary union prompted the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Howe. Ignoring his gentle nudgings toward greater European cooperation, Thatcher declared, "In my view, we have surrendered enough...