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Laird paid special attention to two important interdepartmental bodies: the Washington Special Action Group ( WSAG ), composed of senior Defense, State, and CIA officials, which gathered information necessary for presidential decisions on the crisis use of U. S. military forces ; and the Defense Program Review Committee ( DPRC ), which brought together representatives from many agencies, including DoD, State, the Council of Economic Advisers, and the Office of Management and Budget, to analyze defense budget issues as a basis for advising the president, placing, as Laird commented, " national security needs in proper relationship to non-defense requirements.
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Laird and attention
In this same report Laird noted that the war had commanded more of his attention than any other concern during his four-year term.
Laird and two
On 27 January 1973, two days before Laird left office, the negotiators signed a Vietnam settlement in Paris.
" Laird supported the strategic arms talks leading to the SALT I agreements with the Soviet Union in 1972: a five-year moratorium against expansion of strategic nuclear delivery systems, and an antiballistic missile treaty limiting each side to two sites ( later cut to one ) for deployed ABM systems.
A tournament took place before James at Stirling, on 25 February 1449, between James, master of Douglas, another James, brother to the Laird of Lochleven, and two knights of Burgundy, one of whom, Jacques de Lalain, was the most celebrated knight-errant of the time.
Laird recalled, " I heard her sing an odd phrase or two and thought, ' God that's a big voice out of that little girl ,'" The next summer, she played Dainty June in summer stock, and in 1962 she recorded her first single.
Professor Ian S. Holbourn, the last Laird of Foula, describes the disaster of 8 September 1914, when the White Star Line RMS Oceanic hit the Shaalds o ' Foula, becoming a wreck within two weeks.
In 2000, the company placed it back into production in two variants ; the Etsong Lubao QE6400 Ruby and Etsong Lubao QE6440 Laird, built in a brand-new, specially constructed factory in Qingdao, China.
Though signifying the same as Lord, the two terms are not interchangeable and Laird is not a title of nobility.
His grandson, Robert, died in 1904, leaving no heir-for the first time in 600 years-but twin daughters, the elder of whom, Ella, married William Cunninghame, 14th Laird of Caprington, descendant of the Earls of Glencairn, in 1918, and their two sons, Robert and John Fergusson-Cuninghame, now live at Caprington, Robert, the elder, inheriting the castle and property.
The first five series of Monarch of the Glen told the story of young restaurateur, Archie MacDonald, trying to restore his childhood home in the Scottish Highlands, starring Alastair Mackenzie, Richard Briers, Susan Hampshire and Dawn Steele, whilst the final two series of the show focused on new Laird Paul Bowman trying to modernise the estate, primarily starring Lloyd Owen, Tom Baker, Alexander Morton and Susan Hampshire.
In 1832, the company sent two small ships to the Niger, the Alburkah, a paddle-wheel steamer of fifty-five tons designed by Laird, the first iron vessel to make an ocean voyage.
While searching for a local underground newspaper to publish his work, he began a profressional relationship with Peter Laird and the two collaborated for a short while on various comics projects.
During the recording of the piece, a long-standing tension between Rick Laird and Jerry Goodman boiled over into a full brawl, with the two of them knocking Jan Hammer and his keyboards over during the struggle.
Ruffner had, a short time prior to this ; upon the surrender of Hull, sent his wife and child to Licking County, to a Mr. Lair, or Laird, an uncle, who lived about one and a half miles ( two kilometres ) from Utica.
In the same year Todd, Kitson & Laird built two examples for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, one of which, LMR 57 Lion, has been preserved.
A Lairdship carried voting rights in the ancient pre-Union Parliament of Scotland, although such voting rights were expressed via two representatives from each county who were known as Commissioners of the Shires, who came from the Laird class and were chosen by their peers to represent them.
The electoral district was one of three royally proclaimed by Lieutenant-Governor David Laird on November 13, 1880 The other two electoral districts were Salisbury, named after the Marquess of Salisbury and Kimberley name after the Lord of Kimberley.
He shot a 10 under par round of 63 on day two and held the lead until the very end, winning by three strokes over Martin Laird.
In October 1863 John Laird and his shipbuilding company were caught making two naval ram vessels for the Confederate States Navy: El Toussoun and El Monastir.
The names of these two ships do not appear to hold any significance in the confederacy which leads to the possibility that this was a covert contract between Laird and the Confederate navy.
Laird and important
William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird wrote that this was a " show, that, like ' Show Boat ', became a milestone, so that later historians writing about important moments in twentieth-century theatre would begin to identify eras according to their relationship to ' Oklahoma.
Other important Laird goals were ending conscription by 30 June 1973 and the creation of an All Volunteer Force ( AVF ).
William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird wrote that Oklahoma !, " like Show Boat, became a milestone, so that later historians writing about important moments in twentieth-century theatre would begin to identify eras according to their relationship to Oklahoma!
Laird and Washington
As the Washington Post reported after his selection as secretary of defense, " Around the military-industrial complex these days they're singing ' Praise the Laird and pass the transformation.
Laird and Group
After experiencing financial difficulties, partly due to the failure of a £ 50 million Costa Classica cruise ship refit contract with Costa Crociere, the company was forced to enter receivership in April 2001, and the Birkenhead, Teeside and Tyneside shipyards owned by Cammell Laird shiprepair were acquired by the A & P Shiprepair Group in 2001.
All were subsequently leased, firstly to the A & P Group and then to Northwestern Shiprepairers & Shipbuilders, which officially renamed itself Cammell Laird Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders Ltd on 17 November 2008.
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1672-1749 ), 7th Laird of Auchinleck.
Recognizing the congressional determination, with wide public support, to cut defense costs ( including winding down the Vietnam War ), Laird worked hard to prune budgetary requests before they went to Congress, and acceded to additional cuts when they could be absorbed without serious harm to national security.
* William Laird Smith ( 1869 – 1942 ), Australian representative for Denison, 1910 – 1922 and Minister for the Navy, 1920 – 1921
Among these are North End ( once known as " Atlanticville "), Branchport, Beachfront North and South ( including Pier Village, adjacent to the site of the former Long Branch Pier at the foot of Laird Street ), Downtown, Uptown, West End and Elberon.
* Melvin Laird, U. S. House of Representatives ( 1952-1969 ), Secretary of Defense ( 1969-1973 )
In 1958, Terry Harrison, a boilermaker at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, joined the Revolutionary Socialist League ( RSL ), the precursor to the Militant tendency.
* Laird of Trawick ( sic ), John Stewart of Traquair
* Visual demonstration of MCMC sampling methods ( Java applet ), by Laird Breyer
* Sir Robert Laird Borden ( 1854-1937 ), eighth Prime Minister of Canada, 1911-1920
He was a son of II Laird of Wilton Henry Wardlaw who was b. 1318, and a nephew of Walter Wardlaw ( d. 1390 ), Bishop of Glasgow, who is said to have been made a cardinal by the antipope Clement VII in 1381.
Thomas Dempster was born at Cliftbog, Aberdeenshire ( near Turriff ), to the sister of the Baron of Balquhain, according to him in his autobiography, and Thomas Dempster Laird of Muiresk, Auchterless and Killesmont, sheriff ( until 1586 ) of Banff and Buchan.
John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee ( c. 21 July 1648 – 27 July 1689 ), known as the 7th Laird of Claverhouse until raised to the viscounty in 1688, was a Scottish soldier and nobleman, a Tory and an Episcopalian.
Another recurring character is Edward Tyler ( Peter Laird ), the SIS Director of Intelligence ( D-Int ), who dies early in the third series.
He was born in New Lisbon, Ohio ( now Lisbon, Ohio ), to Clement Vallandigham and his wife Rebecca Laird.
In 2008, college professor Kerry Laird was ordered by Temple College to remove the quote, " Gott ist tot " ( God is Dead ), a famous quote from Nietzsche, from his office door.
* Ai Lit / Holy ( with Eleni Sikelianos & Laird Hunt ), 2001.
* Col. David Barclay ( Quaker ) ( 1610 – 1686 ), 1st Laird of Urie and father of Robert Barclay, the Quaker apologist
:" Parterres are the low embellishments of gardens, which have great grace, especially when seen from an elevated position: they are made of borders of several shrubs and sub-shrubs of various colours, fashioned in different manners, as compartments, foliage, embroideries ( passements ), moresques, arabesques, grotesques, guilloches, rosettes, sunbursts ( gloires ), escutcheons, coats-of-arms, monograms and emblems ( devises )" — Traité du iardinage selon les raisons de la nature et de l ’ art, pp 81 – 82 ( quoted by Laird )
Among his directorships were the boards of several German metal fabrication companies ( representing British capital invested in the companies ), of the British Southern Railway, the Gloucester Wagon Company, Marks and Spencer, the famous shipbuilding firm Cammell Laird, and the Trust and Loan of Canada.
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