Known for his campaigning commitment and skill-and once described by the Mail on Sunday ( 25 July 1999 ) as, with Peter Stothard, editor of The Times, and Peter Mandelson, one of " three men with a formidable combination of power and influence "-he secured a saving of £ 240 million in the annual NHS drugs budget following a successful campaign to regulate pharmaceutical company practices ( 2001 ).

; " University District ", Historylink Magic Lantern Library ( www. Historylink. org ); Keming Kuo, " Beautiful Trees Cut To ' Line Someone's Pocket '", The Seattle Times, 29 June 1977 ; " Removal of Trees Protested ", Ibid., 23 November 1926 ; " Removal of Giant Trees Would Be Crime ", Ibid., 4 November 1926 ; " Roosevelt Park Again Ravenna ", ibid., 29 May 1931 ; " Sears To Close Roosevelt Store ", > Ibid., 1 November 1979 ; Shareen Singh, " Area's Metaphysical Bent Is Well Known ", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 12 September 1998, Neighbors ( project 1996-2000 ); Margaret Pitcairn Strachan, " Roosevelt-Ravenna Are Bustling Areas ", The Seattle Sunday Times, 7 July 1946, p. 5 ; Seattle School Histories, 1869-1974 ed.

Samples from " Son of a Preacher Man " were used on Cypress Hill's cult-classic stoner-culture song " Hits from the Bong " on their album Black Sunday in 1993 and on Adil Omar's " Known to Kick It " in 2008.

* Known rumours that Darryl F. Zanuck invented the casting couch The Zanucks: Reel Royalty from CBS News Sunday Morning ( July 10, 2005 )

Known to have organized Socialist Sunday Schools during this period were the Finnish Socialist Federation, the Ukrainian Socialist Federation, the Hungarian Socialist Federation, and the Lettish Socialist Federation.

Known as SU for short, Student Union sponsors large-scale campus programs including WILD ( a semesterly concert in the quad ), free copies of the New York Times, USA Today, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch through The Collegiate Readership Program ; it contributes to the Assembly Series, a weekly lecture series produced by the University ; it also funds the campus television station, WUTV and the radio station, KWUR.

Known as the Bernard Daly Educational Fund, the funds have helped over 1600 Lake County students to attend college.

Known as the " Harney Mansion ", this historic home stands on South Mansion Street, and is owned by the Harney Mansion Foundation, a private organization which is seeking funds for the restoration of the structure.

For his Jewish philanthropy Baron Edmond became known as " HaNadiv HaYadu ' a ", ( Hebrew for " The Known Benefactor " or " The Famous Benefactor ") and in his memory his son bequeathed the funds to construct the building for the Knesset.

Known as the " White Rose of Hungary ", Geraldine was raised to royal status as Princess Geraldine of Albania prior to her wedding.

Known members, other than the Corps namesake and Arkillo, include Karu-sil, " the girl next door " from a planet populated by murders and sociopaths, where she was raised by demonic wolf-like beings ; Despotellis, a sentient virus capable of attacking Lanterns from the inside ; Bedovian, the sniper of the Corps, capable of taking out a target from three sectors away while living on the fungus growing on his " hermit crab " like shell.

Known as " Lord Cashpoint " to some in the media and politics, he was the leading fundraiser for the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007 ( having raised over £ 100m for the Labour Party.

* In the " Afterthoughts " section of the Tales of Known Space collection, Niven writes: " I keep meeting people who have done mathematical treatments of the problem raised in the short story ' Neutron Star ', .... Alas and dammit, Shaeffer can't survive.

Known as Gus to those close with him, Donatelli was born in Heilwood, Pennsylvania and raised in Bakerton.

Niven also occasionally refers to arcologies in his Known Space series, particularly in the stories involving Gil Hamilton, or the Pierson's Puppeteers, whose arcologies are enormous ( The smallest were cubes a mile in height, length and width.

The Outsiders in Larry Niven's Known Space universe are cryogenic creatures based on liquid helium.

Known to have been played as far back as prehistoric times, games are generally distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

Known versions are KOMPILER 2 for IBM 701 and KOMPILER 3 for the IBM 704.

Many of Niven's stories take place in his Known Space universe, in which humanity shares the several habitable solar systems nearest to the Sun with over a dozen alien species, including the aggressive feline Kzinti and the very intelligent but cowardly Pierson's Puppeteers, which are frequently central characters.

Their commercial empire directly and indirectly controls events throughout Known Space and beyond, and Puppeteer plots are behind many of the larger events in Known Space.

At one time found on every Thrint estate throughout the Thrintun empire, the only known survivors in Known Space are on the planet Jinx, though they are later found on the Ringworld and on a forested planet called Beanstalk ( in the Man-Kzin Wars story " Hey Diddle Diddle ").

The stepping disks are an outgrowth and improvement of the transfer booth technology used by humans and other Known Space races.

There are also two or three short stories which share common themes and some background elements with Known Space stories, but which are not considered a part of the Known Space universe: Bordered in Black and One Face ( see the collection Convergent Series ), and possibly The Color of Sunfire.

Known as the meat of the vegetable world, edible mushrooms are used extensively in cooking, in many cuisines ( notably Chinese, Korean, European, and Japanese ).

Known as the vertical blanking interval ( VBI ), these extra lines are used to convey different things in different countries, like closed captioning.

Known as " locals " to regulars, pubs are typically chosen for their proximity to work, the availability of a particular beer, as a place to smoke ( or avoid it ), hosting a darts team, having a pool table, or appealing to friends.

" Known subversives " ( including peace activists and some trade unionists ) are arrested and interned under the Emergency Powers Act.

This said, individuals or small prides of Wemics are still found all over the Known World.

Known compounds of ytterbium are rare and have not yet been well characterized.

Known compounds detected in valerian that may contribute to its method of action are:

Known Lucayan settlement sites are confined to the nineteen largest islands in the archipelago, or to smaller cays located less than one km.

Known as " king cheetahs ," they were once thought to constitute a separate subspecies but are in fact African cheetahs ; their unusual fur pattern is the result of a single recessive gene.

By common convention, the boundaries of the " Known World " are those covered in the world map as originally published in the module X1, The Isle of Dread, plus Norwold, the Isle of Dawn, and ( pre Wrath of the Immortals ) Alphatia.

Known mainly by the pseudonym, Colonel Rémy, he returned to France in August 1940, not long after the surrender of France.

) Known to us mainly from the 28th and 29th Discourses of Dio Chrysostom, in which that writer uses his life as a canvas for a discussion of the ideal athlete and the ideal man, Dio praises his athleticism, good looks, and brave heart.

Known mainly as the Fremen wife and legal concubine of protagonist Paul " Muad ' Dib " Atreides, Chani is the daughter of Imperial Planetologist Liet-Kynes and his Fremen wife Faroula, and later the mother of the twins Ghanima and Leto Atreides II.

Known mainly for high performance bodysurfing and intense jaw dropping rides and wipeouts, these waves are created by swells hitting the jetty and " rebounding " into oncoming waves, creating the " wedge effect ," which results in peaks that can " jack up " to incredible sizes and shapes.

Known mainly under his courtesy title of Lord North, which he used from 1752 to 1790, he was one of the most influential statesman of the second half of the 18th century.

Known for its clean water and delicious food, Ubuyama's economy is mainly based on agriculture and tourism.

Known as Brenhines ein llên (" The queen of our literature "), she is known mainly for her short stories, but she also wrote novels.

Known mainly for second leads and supporting roles, Young won an Academy Award for his performance as a slimy dance-marathon emcee in the 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don't They ?.

The band has drawn on many musical influences, but are best known as a secular gospel collective of east coast musicians dedicated to songwriting, Old-Time Music, Bluegrass Music, Country Music, Rock and Roll Music, live music played in expected, as well as unexpected venues in expected, as well as unexpected ways, recorded music, and are " Known best for rowdy, energetic live shows ," the group is mainly a touring and live-performance act in the U. S. and Europe.

Known as a village of Lismore, Modanville is actually a locality: a broad area of land with houses, mainly farmhouses, dotted here and there.

Known in England as the Surrey Pet, he came to Australia with a sponsored 1861 / 62 team which consisted of mainly Surrey cricketers, and again in 1864 after which he stayed on as coach of the Melbourne Cricket Club.