Word: geoffreys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposal that would guarantee schooling, training or work for every 16-year-old. Cost: $2.3 billion a year. In the end, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Secretary William Whitelaw and Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, the Cabinet heavyweights, backed the reduced plan, and Thatcher and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe agreed to go along...
...ruling surprised legal scholars. Said University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone: "In the past, this court basically put Miranda in the doghouse. Now it seems to be suggesting that, for better or worse, we accept it." Other experts pointed out that White's rule raised further questions to be settled in future cases-particularly as to what constitutes "initiating" communication...
...class-at starting salaries approaching $30,000. At Stanford, the 1980 median starting salary was $31,998, up 16% over the previous year. One Stanford graduate got a bid of $52,000. A Harvard graduate was offered $59,000. The students are correspondingly euphoric. Says Chicago's Geoffrey Faux, 26: "By going to an elite business school, I'm giving a signal of my potential for success...
...Geoffrey C. Hazard, a law professor who has been acting as dean of Yale's School of Organization and Management, shares some of the skepticism about the way management is being taught. Says he: "Every C.E.O. I've ever talked to, once pushed into a corner with two martinis, will tell you that though the myth is that he stands with the reins of power in his hands, his big question is not 'How shall I drive this marvelous chariot?' but 'How the hell can I get these goddam horses to move their asses...
...complaints that the country is not getting its money's worth. Almost 90% of polled Britons want to retain the monarchy, and recently, when Labor's William Hamilton made a solitary exit from Parliament after another of his frequent excoriations of the extravagant royals, Conservative M.P. Geoffrey Finsberg scoffed, "Those who share Mr. Hamilton's view will doubtless have left the chamber with him." What Hamilton wants is a wedding-or, in his phrase, "jamboree"-financed by the families of the bride and groom, "both exceedingly wealthy." In a rational debate, Hamilton might be hard to argue...