They also scoured the minor leagues for selections in the Rule 5 draft ( Paul Blair from the Mets in 1962, Moe Drabowsky from the Cardinals in 1965 ) and claims off waivers ( Curt Blefary, 1965 AL Rookie of the Year, from the Yankees in 1963 ).

Blair and his sister Avril spent the summer holidays making the house habitable while he also worked on Burmese Days.

Waiting times, which have already fallen considerably under Blair ( median wait time is about 6 weeks for elective non-urgent surgery ) are also in focus.

After a period of unemployment, Major started working at the London Electricity Board ( where his successor as the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, also worked when he was young ) in 1963, and he decided to undertake a correspondence course in banking.

He is probably based on the Lt Colonel Blair Mayne who shares many characteristics as Jack O ' Hara as well as also being a WWII Era Commando

The Archers was also the model for the Russian radio soap opera Dom 7, Podyezd 4 (" House 7, Entrance 4 "), on which the former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, once made a cameo appearance.

It is also used over the closing credits of the 2000 movie Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 but is not included on the soundtrack release.

The Fabian Window is also located within the library, having been unveiled by Tony Blair in 2003.

The castle also hosted the Northern Ireland peace talks held in September 2004 led by Tony Blair.

It has also been used by some to describe the beliefs of the British government while Thatcher was Prime Minister between May 1979 and November 1990, and beyond into the governments of John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron.

Claiming that the Americans had circulated ' propaganda ' that Mullah Omar had gone into hiding, Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil stated that he would like to " propose that prime minister Blair and president Bush take Kalashnikovs and come to a specified place where Omar will also appear to see who will run and who not.

Blair has its own hospital, the Memorial Community Hospital, and being the county seat, also has a courthouse located in town.

Blair is also home to the Rainbow Restaurant and Countryside Lefse Company.

He also asserted that Blair gave permission to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2001 to initiate what would ultimately become Operation Defensive Shield.

Occasional one-off specials are also shown, with Bremner impersonating Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and various other government figures.

Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Michael Wolf, Bono, Paulo Coelho and Tony Blair are also regular Davos attendees.

Blair is also the godfather of Gallop's son Tom,

Blair House is primarily used to house foreign heads of state visiting the president ( when foreign leaders stay there, the house flies their flag and, in effect, becomes foreign soil ), but it has also been used for domestic guests.

She also was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress but lost to Betsy Blair in Marty.

Bell also claims to be the first cartoonist to have spotted Margaret Thatcher's mad left eye, as well as the fact that Tony Blair shares this unusual feature.

" Blair also claimed that Short had put British security, particularly the security of its spies, at risk.

I'm also a big Brown fan ; he might not have that slick charm that we seem to buy into these days, as we did with Blair, which turned into a big mistake, and as we seem to be doing with Cameron.

Although the purpose of the expedition was to discover, identify and collect Mexico's birds, it has also been described as yet another honeymoon between him and Blair.

As a result of his much-publicized divorce from Blair and his later marriage to Elswyth, he was also known for his stormy relationships with women.

The party was also victorious in 2001 and 2005, making Blair Labour's longest-serving British Prime Minister.

However, shortly after coming to power, the Labour Party under Prime Minister Tony Blair abolished the student maintenance grant system and introduced an up-front fee fixed at just over £ 1, 000 per year for all university students.

Arguing the practice to be elitist and wasteful of public funds, the Labour government of Tony Blair, upon its election in 1997, abolished the Assisted Places Scheme.

Eric Blair: BBC talks producer, Indian Section, London.

* D ' Ancona, Matthew, " Mr Blair is now, at best, a politician in remission ," Sunday Telegraph ( Opinion Section ) 26 March 2006

An order prohibiting publication under Section 11 of the Contempt of Court Act ( 1981 ) was issued forbidding any United Kingdom newspaper from releasing certain information regarding a memo which is alleged to have been an official transcript of a conversation between U. S. President George W. Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, which in the context of the planning for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, regarded a plan to bomb selected offices of the Arabic language Al Jazeera television news station.

On August 28, four days of fighting broke out on a front at Blair Mountain between coal company militia and thousands of Union miners led by Bill Blizzard.

The current mayor of La Porte, Blair Milo, is one of the youngest mayors in city's history, elected to the position in 2011 at the age of 28.

The Main Line of the Pennsylvania Canal was completed in 1832, and opened on November 28 when the packetboat " John Blair " left Huntingdon, for the west.

On April 28, 2003, Blair received a call from Times national editor Jim Roberts asking him about similarities between a story he had written two days earlier and one written by San Antonio Express-News reporter Macarena Hernandez on April 18.

There are even examples of movies shot entirely on consumer camcorder equipment ( such as The Blair Witch Project and 28 Days Later ).

Coffey is as of the resignation of Tony Blair as Prime Minister on 28 June 2008, the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling.

The penultimate DNI was retired Navy four-star admiral Dennis C. Blair, whose resignation became effective May 28, 2010.

*" Tony Blair: Punk icon " at BBC News, 28 September 2005

Barbara Blair Cox Anthony ( December 8, 1922 – May 28, 2007 ) was the youngest daughter of James M. Cox, a Democratic governor of Ohio, newspaper publisher and broadcaster.

( Blackmore 1965: 28 and Blair 1983: 67 )

He served from November 29, 1912, until January 28, 1914, when an elected successor, Blair Lee I, officially qualified for the position.

The Metropolitan Police Authority requested on 28 July 2008 that Blair face an inquiry over a series of IT contracts with the Metropolitan Police worth £ 3 million won by Impact Plus, a consultancy owned by Andy Miller, who is a long-time friend of Blair.

This production premiered on 28 January 1960, with the ballerina Nadia Nerina as Lise, David Blair as Colas, Stanley Holden as the Widow Simone, and Alexander Grant as Alen.