Word: hurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said he supported "the main thrust" of Baker's plan but he also reminded the ministers of NATO's need to keep its "robust defense capability...
...resigned. His successor: Foreign Minister John Major, 46, who headed the Foreign Office for less than four months but served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury for two years. Rumor has it that he is Thatcher's new favorite to be her successor. Major's replacement: Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, 59, who presumably brings to his new job a mastery of foreign intrigue. In his spare time Hurd has written nine mystery thrillers since...
...starts as early as high school: the attention of admirers, the scrutiny from scouts, the pressure to live up to one's potential. Walter Hurd, 17, is an all-city basketball player at Evander Childs High School in the Bronx. He averaged 27 points a game last season and is expected to be one of the most sought-after high school players in the U.S. this year. "Just about everyone's tried it," says Hurd. "If you had 20 guys, I'd say at least 18 had tried drugs." Hurd admits to experimenting with marijuana, but says once was enough...
...slight, soft-spoken woman, Hurd gained practice in the frugality and tough-mindedness that brought Aliens in on its relatively modest $18 million budget. She is capable of denying her husband the time or the equipment he needs for one of his on-set brainstorms. When he insisted on a laser scanner for the picture's first sequence, she made him pay for it himself. All her grit was needed to cope with ten months of Aliens production in unenlightened England. "The British view of female producers proved to be a big problem for Gale," says her husband. "They didn...
...something more delicate and interesting than their style of conducting their joint careers may be emerging from the Cameron-Hurd collaboration. It is something that, if their success achieves exemplary status, could influence the immediate future of the movies. It is the restoration of something like an adult sensibility to the action movie, a belief, shared by such classicists of the genre as John Ford and Howard Hawks, that besides telling a rattling good yarn at a nerve-busting pace, pictures of this kind can carry a theme, even -- shocking word these days -- a moral...