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However, the dispute did not end there. According to Tabin, Philip W. Ingham, a senior scientist at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the head of the third research team, did not like the name because in England Sonic is slang for "groovy" and "naming something Sonic made him sick." But he, too, eventually agreed to the name...
...idea that CNN ought to be more analytic and instructive is not universally held among government and business leaders either. Many like the network just as it is. Sir Bernard Ingham used to be the combative press secretary to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, herself so big a fan of CNN that the network has made special arrangements for her to get it at ( her office. Says Ingham: "I don't think we want analysis. What we want is reporting of the facts. People can form their own judgments. There are too damn many journalists analyzing the news...
...felled other hard-line rulers, the tyrannical Ceausescu last week turned to China for support in standing firm. The tide of reform is not likely to reach Bucharest so long as its despotic leader survives. Any Rumanian bold enough to speak out is beaten, harassed or imprisoned. Says Jane Ingham, a Rumanian specialist in England: "The regime is so oppressive that no opposition movement is able to exist...
...sinking pound was a new and embarrassing political problem for Thatcher. Opposition Leader Neil Kinnock called her handling of the crisis an "epic of bungling indecision." Two weeks ago, Thatcher's press secretary, Bernard Ingham, aggravated the tense situation by telling reporters that they could be "absolutely certain that we are not going to defend" a particular value of the pound. That unfortunate remark helped speed the currency's slide and forced Thatcher to abandon her hands-off policy...
...Michael Ingham...