Word: overlying
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Born into a middle-class Welsh family, Heseltine studied accounting after Oxford and then went into property development and publishing, amassing a fortune worth more than (pounds)50 million. Elected to Parliament in 1966, he held various non-Cabinet posts under Edward Heath. When Margaret Thatcher came to power in...
In his 1972 thriller Truth Game, one of seven he has written in his spare time, Douglas Hurd described a British Prime Minister whose Cabinet waffles over a decision to send troops to a distant island republic. But the Foreign Secretary's firm response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait...
Clark recounts that some of the students find the work too tough at the academy and leave to attend public school. "But then they come back because they miss the structure," he says. This was the case with Steve, a slight boy with spiky hair who sits in the back...
Beaty has been doing it since a 1978-82 stint in TIME's Washington bureau; among other duties, he covered the Drug Enforcement Administration. He first contributed to a major TIME story on drugs in 1981, when we examined cocaine. This week he takes a look at the empire of...
Shannon approached the story from the government side, interviewing officials in Washington and heading for the Mexican border. There she flew with U.S. Customs officers as they patrolled smuggling routes and staged mock intercepts. They scouted the "slots," mountain passes where airborne smugglers fly only feet above the ground to...