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Longwood Gardens, near Kennett Square, Pa. ( about 12 miles from Wilmington, Del. ), was developed and heavily endowed by the late Pierre S. Du Pont.
Sheryl Suzanne Crow was born in Kennett, Missouri.
While studying at Kennett High School, Crow was a majorette and an All-State track athlete, medaling in the 75-meter low hurdles.
Bracks, according to critics, achieved little, and lost the excitement of constant change that was characteristic of the Kennett years.
Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC ( born 2 March 1948 ), a former Australian politician, was the Premier of Victoria between 1992 and 1999.
Kennett was born in Melbourne on 2 March 1948, and educated at Scotch College.
After leaving school, Kennett was persuaded by his father Ken to attend the Australian National University in Canberra, but lost interest and left after one year of an economics degree.
Kennett was singled out as ' officer material ' early in his career, and graduated third in his class from the Officer Training Unit ( OTU ) Scheyville, near Windsor, New South Wales, outside Sydney.
Kennett returned to civilian life in 1970, reentering a divided Australian society, split by the Vietnam War, of which Kennett was a firm supporter.
Interested in local politics since the early 1970s, Kennett was elected as a Liberal Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly ( MLA ) for Burwood in 1976.
Entering Hamer's government, Kennett was soon appointed Minister for Housing, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in 1981.
Following the defeat of the longstanding Liberal government in 1982, Kennett was the leading candidate to replace Lindsay Thompson, and on 26 October, he was elected Leader of the Liberal Party, despite being the youngest member of the outgoing Cabinet.
Kennett survived easily, but increasingly, he was seen as an erratic and unapproachable leader.
When Cain was returned with a small but workable majority, Kennett was again criticised within his own party, and in 1989 he was deposed as leader and replaced by Alan Brown, a little-known rural Member of the Legislative Assembly.
Given that Victoria's finances were in billions of dollars of debt, Kennett was seen from the beginning of his second leadership period as ' Premier-in-waiting '.
Having assumed office, the need for such action was justified when Kennett and his new Treasurer Alan Stockdale discovered that the outgoing government had left them with $ 2. 2 billion budget deficit, a net public sector debt of $ 33 billion and budget sector debt of $ 16 billion.
Moreover, in the first three years of the ' Kennett Revolution ' ( as the Premier himself came to term it ), government funding for the public school system was substantially reduced, with 350 government schools closed, and 7, 000 teaching jobs removed.
Kennett was undeterred by this protest, and famously commented that though there were 100, 000 outside his office at Parliament that day, there were 4. 5 million who stayed at home or at work.
The relocation of the Formula 1 Grand Prix from Adelaide in 1993 was a particular coup for Kennett, who had worked hard with his friend Ron Walker, the Chairman of the Melbourne Major Events Company, helped deliver Melbourne the hosting rights for the event from Adelaide in 1993.
The most controversial project of the Kennett era was the $ 1. 85 billion Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex, a gambling and entertainment centre on Melbourne's Southbank.

Kennett and student
In 1979, under the leadership of Pastor J. D. Langford of the First United Pentecostal Church, the Kennett Christian Academy opened its doors with a student body of sixty.
The school was threatened with closure by the Kennett government in the 1990s as student numbers fell because of demographic changes, but was saved after a vote at an extraordinary School Council meeting in October 1996.

Kennett and did
In this last case, Kennett did not shy away from criticising the media, but also the decision of the Howard government to not actively oppose Hanson's agenda.
Kennett claimed he had been approached by " a range of interests " to run for the position, but in the end did not do so.

Kennett and well
It was founded on 22 June 1994 during the amalgamation of local councils by the Kennett Government from the City of Williamstown and the City of Altona, as well as the suburb of South Kingsville from the City of Footscray.
* There used to also be Doveton High School, which was later known as Joseph Banks Secondary College, as well as a Doveton West Primary School, which closed in the 1990s when the Kennett Government cut schools and amalgamated them with other local schools.
As elected Mayor of St Kilda Council in 1993, he became well known for championing the cause of local democracy and his clashes with Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett.

Kennett and .
Bracks led Labor in Victoria to minority government at the 1999 election, defeating the incumbent Jeff Kennett Liberal and National coalition government.
Following the defeat of the Kirner government by the Liberal leader Jeff Kennett in late 1992, Bracks became Executive Director of the Victorian Printing Industry Training Board.
Political observers were almost unanimous that Bracks had no chance of defeating Liberal premier Jeff Kennett at the November 1999 election: polls gave Kennett a 60 % popularity rating.
Bracks and his senior colleagues ( particularly Brumby, who comes from Bendigo ) campaigned heavily in regional areas, accusing Kennett of ignoring regional communities.
In response, voters in regional areas deserted the Kennett government and Labor increased their seats from 29 to 42, with the Liberals and their National Party allies retaining 43, and three falling to rural independents.
The Shire of Mornington Peninsula came into existence on 15 December 1994 when the Kennett Liberal government amalgamated the previous Shires of Flinders, Hastings and Mornington.
In the 1992 state election, the Liberals came to power under Premier Jeff Kennett, who planned to cut the costs of Melbourne's public transport network and remove conductors.
* Kennett, Lee, Sherman: A Soldier's Life, HarperCollins, 2001, ISBN 0-06-017495-1.
Having returned to Myer, Kennett became impatient with his work, and so with Ian Fegan and Eran Nicols, he formed his own advertising company ( KNF ) in June 1971.
Thereafter, in December 1972, Kennett married Felicity Kellar, an old friend whom he had first met on a Number 7 tram on the long trips to school.

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As a portrait of disenchantment, Return was more authentic and honest than Lawrence Kasdan's star-studded Big Chill ... A rueful movie about unexceptional lives that have prematurely grown stale, Secaucus is a bit commonplace, lacking genuine drama.
“ The affair was unexceptional.
In the Early Iron Age, Maiden Castle was generally unexceptional ; it was one of over 100 hill forts of similar size built around the same time in the area that is now Berkshire, Dorset, Hampshire, and Wiltshire.
In a review of the 901 system, stating that in the magazine's opinion, the system was unexceptional and unlikely to appeal to perfectionists with a developed taste in precise imaging, detail, and timbre ; and that these shortcomings were an excessive price to pay for the improvement in impact and ambiance generated by the large proportion of reflected sound on-axis sound.
" but that " It could have used a bit of tweaking here and there to even out the pacing [...]" Industry aggregator Mania. com editor Chris Beveridge rated each of the three North American releases a B, averaging a predictable story, an overall solid release, but that " Saber Marionette J was decent if unexceptional in total.
This time, the war of 1812 was not unexceptional like other wars of Napoleon.
His playing career was unexceptional.
Early fan speculation hoped that high Nielsen ratings would prove the viability of renewing the series, but since the ratings were unexceptional, continuation was ruled out.
Most of the shells used by the sIG 33 were unexceptional in design, but the Stielgranate 42 was different in fundamental ways from ordinary shells.
Prior to the mid-19th century, swimming nude was unexceptional.
An adequate but unexceptional student ( although he did apparently learn good German ), his first exposure to the stage was by attending plays at " Pârjoala " garden, where he saw popular theater, including actors such as Zaharia Burienescu and I. D.
In her first few months at the center, Judith was unexceptional with paint.
Horie was born in Yame, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, and was raised in an unexceptional household by a salaryman father and mother from a farming family.
He was an unexceptional student in high school and worked briefly at Fleet Aerospace before joining, at 18, the RCAF early in World War II.
* The title of the episode refers to Zeppo Marx, who was the straight man among the Marx Brothers and long considered to be the most unexceptional member of the act.
Until 1964, Leven was a small, unexceptional village-home to some 400 inhabitants but then private housing estate building commenced-Barley Gate, Mill Drive, Westlands Way, Balk Close-and the village quickly expanded to become a dormitory for aspirant workers, mainly from Hull and Beverley.

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