Word: geoffreys
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...country's education system has slipped badly under Thatcher. Critics charge that spending has been cut 10% after inflation, and even her Minister for Information Technology, Geoffrey Pattie, complains that "schools are turning out dangerously high quotas of illiterate, delinquent unemployables." One Tory proposal is to take control of secondary and primary schools away from local councils, many of them Labor dominated, and give principals and school boards more power over their budgets...
...Archbishop of Canterbury's envoy, missing in Lebanon, said special prayers to mark his 48th birthday yesterday." Prayers were among the few words being spoken about the fate of Waite and the 22 other foreign hostages in Beirut. In Western capitals, officials were closemouthed. British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe did say, however, that there is no reason to believe Waite is "not still alive...
...Editors: Geoffrey Simon, Mark Brazaitis, Jessica Dorman...
...fluid and dynamic society--buffeted by the forces of technological change on one side, and traditional institutions on the other, observers say. "I think the most fundamental point is that the accepted and recognized, if not always approved standards, of conditions is becoming more fluid and ambiguous," says Geoffrey Hazard, a Yale law professor who specializes in legal ethics...
Yale Law Professor Geoffrey Hazard, who was amember of Bok's ad hoc committee, said thatpresidential intervention "was uncommon" butlaudable...