Word: harold
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...historic reversal of party policy, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor government last week conceded that ambitious social-welfare programs were crippling Britain's economy and announced plans for vast cuts in public spending. Setting forth a four-year economic plan in a 149-page White Paper, Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey proposed a $3.6 billion cut in public spending for 1977-78 and a further $6 billion cut for 1978-79-a reduction of 12% on original plans...
Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson last week said the recruitment of mercenaries-with "vast sums" of money and accurate lists of British military units-was a potential threat to democratic government. Wilson refused to say who he thought was responsible, but some believed he was referring to the CIA. More direct charges of CIA involvement came from one John Banks, who until last week had been recruiting for a fly-by-night mercenary hiring agency called Security Advisory Services. Banks named Lawrence Katz, an attaché in the American embassy in London, as the "link man"; Katz denied...
...about this time that Colson's thoughts, he reports, turned more frequently to God-with the aid of one of the White House's most notorious enemies, former Democratic Senator Harold Hughes. While Colson was in prison, Hughes, Congressman Al Quie and two other members of Colson's prayer group offered to serve out the rest of his term for him on the basis of an old statute they had unearthed. "For the first time," writes Colson, "I felt truly free, even as the fortunes of my life seemed at their lowest...
Many colleges, in turn, are looking suspiciously at the letters that come in. Harold Doughty, director of admissions at New York University, notes that "recommendations are more bland, less reliable and less frank." Says Richard Lyman, president of Stanford University: "Letters of recommendation, one suspects, have long been subject to a debasement of the coinage. And how-the drive to make them freely available to the persons about whom they are written seems perfectly designed to administer the coup...
...Napa and Sonoma counties; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Schoonmaker dropped out of Princeton University in 1923 because he felt it had little to teach him, and on a visit to France began his study of vintages in the household of a wine merchant. In 1933, Harold Ross of The New Yorker commissioned Schoonmaker to write a landmark ten-article series on the wines of Europe that started him on his career as one of the nation's premier wine critics. Later Schoonmaker became a consultant to leading American vintners and went into the wine business himself...