Word: royed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Midlands cities of Birmingham, Luton and Coventry -authorities think that one and perhaps two have been broken up by the arrests. Parliament, meanwhile, voted down by a margin of 369 to 217 a proposal to restore hanging as capital punishment for terrorists, although the final vote, as Home Secretary Roy Jenkins acknowledged, was "probably at variance with public opinion and dangerously...
...Roy M. Fisher Columbia...
Once the Vice President is installed, other changes of personnel are scheduled to follow. Top man to depart will be Roy Ash, director of the Office of Management and Budget. A prickly personality, Ash has won the respect of the President for his diligence, but he is too closely identified with the policies of the Nixon Administration to stay on in that job. He will be replaced, in fact, by another Nixon appointee, James Lynn, 47, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Despite his Nixonian background, Lynn has impressed friend and foe alike with his administrative ability and political know...
...cost of food stamps to families that qualify for them. Even if the White House gets everything that it is asking from Congress, the budget would still be $9 billion in deficit, but Administration officials are concerned that a tighter squeeze would damage an already weak economy. Says Roy Ash, director of the Office of Management and Budget: "The economy can change faster than the budget...
...Parliament, Roy Jenkins, the humane and reform-minded Home Secretary, found himself cast in the difficult role of trying to convince an enraged public that the government was doing everything reasonable to protect its citizens. Among the "draconian" measures, "unprecedented in peacetime," that Jenkins asked Parliament to pass: outlawing the Irish Republican Army in Britain; curtailment of habeas corpus to permit police to arrest without warrant I.R.A. suspects and to hold them for up to seven days...