Word: howe
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...Still, the voice of that same British establishment went on in its editorial to fault Thatcher for complacency. She was blamed for failing to defuse the threat to her position that had begun 10 days earlier with the devastating resignation speech in the House of Commons by Sir Geoffrey Howe, former Deputy Prime Minister...
...Howe launched Thatcher's downfall. He attacked the Prime Minister's public undermining of her ministers' policies, comparing it to sending out batsmen in a cricket game with their bats broken by the captain. He said Thatcher saw a continent "positively teeming with ill-intentioned people scheming, in her words, 'to extinguish democracy...
...Howe closed by saying the tragedy for him, his party and the country was that Thatcher's attitude toward Europe was risking the "future of our nation." In resigning, he invited "others to consider their response" to his "conflict of loyalty." It was an invitation to insurrection. No one doubted that if Howe had not made that speech, Heseltine would not have dared a leadership challenge. On Saturday Howe threw his support behind Heseltine...
...role in the European Community for decades. Thatcher, though she insists she backs such steps as monetary union and closer political cooperation, in fact does her best to delay or weaken them. Her obstructionism has produced a string of Cabinet resignations by ministers who tried to correct her course. Howe was demoted from Foreign Minister to the powerless post of deputy to Thatcher in July 1989 for pushing her to accept currency union...
...singer Ella Fitzgerald. Because the initial symptoms (fatigue, frequent urination) are usually mild, half the 12 million Americans with diabetes do not realize they have it. Even after diagnosis, many patients fail to take diabetes as seriously as they should. "At first, everything goes along fine," sighs June Howe, a patient at Boston's Joslin Diabetes Center. "You don't realize that later on problems will...