Word: lawson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thatcher plainly wanted to stop speculation that she might resign in the wake of the resignation of Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson...
Ford has promised Jaguar's officials a large degree of freedom in running the company. Even so, John Lawson, a London-based analyst for Nomura Research Institute, predicts that Ford will have to invest an additional $1.5 billion to improve Jaguar's production, which would bring the total investment to $4 billion. "That is going to be very hard for Ford to recover in the marketplace," Lawson warns. But then, status symbols seldom come cheap...
...praise was terminally faint. During a question period in Parliament last week, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed confidence in Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson, who was feuding with her chief economic adviser, Sir Alan Walters. But her endorsement was embarrassingly tepid. Lawson, 57, promptly 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...
Continuing an eight-year struggle for a senior faculty post, Barbara Bund Jackson '66 will challenge the decision on grounds that procedural errors by Harvard, including the destruction of 10 years of tenure documents, compromised the prosecution's case, said attorney Evan T. Lawson...
...appeal is expected to come before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in mid-1990, said Lawson...