Word: hurd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lived with 49 other boys. Andrew Gailey, the warm and erudite housemaster, as well as Christopher Stuart-Clark, his tutor, and Elizabeth Heathcote, Manor House's matron, will lend support to William, as they did during his parents' divorce. "William is comfortable there and popular with the boys," says Hurd. "It's a very flexible place...
...trooped before the TV cameras to commend the Prime Minister's bold initiative. Said Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke: "I entirely support the Prime Minister's sensible decision to bring forward the date of the leadership election. He has my total support." Foreign Secretary and party heavyweight Douglas Hurd, who chose last week to announce his retirement from the Cabinet, also endorsed Major...
...after British Prime Minister John Major shocked the country by quitting as Conservative Party leader, Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd -- one of Major's closest allies -- tendered his resignation. Though Hurd had planned to retire this summer, officials said he had been reluctant to leave until Major was able to ward off threats from Tory rebels opposed to economic integration with Europe. Without Hurd, one of the anti-Europe faction's chief targets, Major will now be able to reshuffle his Cabinet at the July 4 leadership contest on which his own future rides...
...role of the U.N." But even beyond that, he said, the kind of peacekeeping that is required can be carried out only when the combatants basically agree to it. "If the consent is not there, the U.N. will not remain," he said. Britain's Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd went further, saying the reinforcements were intended not to change the character of the U.N. force "but to increase its ability to protect itself." If the U.N.'s task becomes impossible, Hurd said, "it would have to withdraw...
...Joseph Hurd...