Word: neil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revealed that Trade Minister and Tory Party Chairman Cecil Parkinson had fathered a child by his secretary. The wayward colleague eventually resigned, but Thatcher's waffling over whether he should quit did her no good. Labor rose from its electoral ashes to choose bright, eloquent Welshman Neil Kinnock, 41, as its new leader. From Thatcher's Tory ranks came broadsides ripping her economic policy, her lack of compassion, her foreign dealings. Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, long an ardent backer, echoed the feelings of many when he declared: "She has run out of puff...
Brighton Beach Memoirs. Neil Simon mixes slapstick and sentiment in his autobiographical play about an American family, that secret society where the passwords are forgive and remember...
...Neil Livingstone, author of The War Against Terrorism, contends that much can be done to discourage the phenomenon in the U.S. He claims that vulnerable power stations, telecommunications facilities and the power-line grid system should be better guarded, and he advocates a federal antiterrorism law so that the FBI can more readily assist in investigations...
Condemnation of the attack poured in from all sides. Labor Leader Neil Kinnock expressed his horror at "this insane assault upon innocent people." Calling the bombing "brutal and barbaric," Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared: "It is a crime against humanity, and at Christmas it is particularly cruel." Not surprisingly, the event stirred renewed calls for the death penalty for terrorist killings...
...sophomore netminder turned away 30 shots on a night when the absence of graduated defensemen Mark Fusco. Neil Sheehy and Mitch Olson left Blair considerably less protected than he was in last season's 9-1 Crimson rout...