He would only remain three months in that post before becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer after Nigel Lawson's surprise resignation in October 1989.

Lawson's mediocre figures on the 1984 tour of the West Indies ( 12 wickets in five Tests ) was a primary reason for Australia's heavy defeat in the series, although he performed better on the short one day tour of India later that year.

In the 1992 budget his proposal to advance to a 20 % basic rate of income tax through a combination of a narrow initial band, a cut in tax on deposit interest and curtailment of tax allowances was hailed as an elegant way of combining populism with progressivism, though events were later to lend support to Nigel Lawson's view that this approach was strategically inept.

The Lawson's first daughter, Irene, was born later that year.

Several years later, after the Doolittle Raid in World War II, Ted W. Lawson's name was added to the memorial at the field.

Three years after Starley's death in 1901, and H. J. Lawson's subsequent takeover, the Rover company began producing automobiles with the two-seater Rover Eight to the designs of Edmund Lewis, who came from Lawson's Daimler.

Dairy Mart moved its headquarters to Cuyahoga Falls, renamed the Lawson's stores, and operated the chain as Dairy Mart for the next 17 years.

Jack Newton Lawson's analysis of Daniel 9: 24-27 states that the Seventy Weeks passage is a reinterpretation of Jeremiah ’ s prophecy of the desolation of Jerusalem lasting seventy years.

Dennis ' " The Sentimental Bloke " and some of Henry Lawson's writings can be used to see the forms that have their origins in Irish and Irish-Gaelic in the Australian Language.

As a consequence of the geology, they have a unique flora including several endemic or near-endemic species, such as Lawson's Cypress ( Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ) and Foxtail Pine ( Pinus balfouriana ).

Since Lawson's empire collapsed, this may have been fortunate for the German parent.

Ronda is home to the oldest bullfighting ring in Spain that is still used ; this might have been a reason for Lawson's use of its surroundings as a background for the story.

On 20 October 2008, Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt stated Lawson's contract would not be renewed once his term finishes in April 2009 stating " We have no utility for Lawson.

The Wallaby Track Drive Tour visits various sites associated with Lawson including the old Eurundee Public School, the Henry Lawson memorial, the Budgee Budgee Inn, Sapling Gully, Golden Gully and the Albury Pub which was owned by Lawson's grandfather.

Peter Lawson's grave ( with headstone ) is in the little private cemetery at Hartley Vale, New South Wales, a few minutes ' walk behind what was Collitt's Inn.

After Lawson's death Veteran Hall was eventually acquired by the Metropolitan Water Board and most of the granted property is now submerged by the waters of Prospect reservoir.

* One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth, in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.

The first ( and as it turned out, the only ) season followed Maggie Lawson's and Reid Scott's characters romance as it evolved from a boyfriend / girlfriend relationship into engagement and, eventually, marriage.

Circle K stores in northeast Ohio vary depending upon what stores they used to be: the majority are former Citgo / Holland Oil, whose gas is branded as Circle K ; others are remnants of the Lawson's / Dairy Mart chain, which sell gas from other companies.

Those included North American Sequoia, Lawson's Cypress, Magnolia and Western Redcedar, Chinese Ginkgo, Japanese Cryptomeria, and a wide variety of ferns and tree ferns from Australia and New Zealand, concentrated in the Queen's Fern Garden ( Feteira da Rainha ).

In 1988, the newspaper declared that Nigel Lawson's " Jewish parentage was disqualification enough " from his being made Foreign Secretary.

In attempts to improve the gradient of the decent from the Blue Mountains plateau to the floor of the Hartley Valley, Lawson's Long Alley was opened in 1824.

Cunnamulla is the main setting for Henry Lawson's short story " The Hypnotised Township " from his anthology The Rising of the Court, and Other Sketches in Prose and Verse.

In Lawson's own words " I got £ 5 and a railway ticket from the Bulletin and went to Bourke.

Lawson's commando group is instructed to destroy the Japanese radio transmitter to prevent them from sounding the alarm about an American naval convoy which is scheduled to appear on the horizon in three days.

Where Lawson's tower block is an exemplary composition in the Scottish Baronial style, taking its inspiration from the 16th century tower houses and reading something like a toy fort or a castle to a modern eye, McCoy's blue stone aggregate and fair face concrete echo its materials while the new complex's gun slot windows are a playful reference to the Maginot line which echoes the old building's military theme.

20th century heirs of the 19th-century view of an unchanging, immortal quality of " Greekness " are typified in J. C. Lawson's Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion ( 1910 ) or R. and E. Blum's The Dangerous Hour: The lore of crisis and mystery in rural Greece ( 1970 ); according to the Classicist Paul Cartledge, they " represent this ideological construction of Greekness as an essence, a Classicizing essence to be sure, impervious to such historic changes as that from paganism to Orthodox Christianity, or from subsistence peasant agriculture to more or less internationally market-driven capitalist farming.

The film is inspired by a true story written about in Guy Lawson's GQ article ' Inside Man ' about two men from opposite sides of the law-a rookie gang-banger trying to make it out of the gang alive and a hot-headed FBI agent intent on avenging the death of his partner-who must overcome their mistrust of one another and risk their lives in order to infiltrate the organization of a ruthless gang leader threatening to spread armed violence across Los Angeles and the urban centers of America.

Lawson's convenience stores were common in Ohio from the 1960s through the mid-1980s.

Due to popular response from consumers in Ohio and elsewhere, however, Alimentation Couche-Tard announced that Lawson's Chip Dip would continue to be sold " no matter what the name of the store ", as was reported in the Akron Beacon-Journal.

In 2003, Brassey's reprinted Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo with more photos and an introduction from Lawson's widow, Ellen.

Under Lawson's five-year editorship, the magazine's circulation grew from 30, 000 to 50, 000.

In 1943, he founded the University of Lawsonomy in Des Moines to spread his teachings and offer the degree of " Knowledgian ," but after various IRS and other investigations it was closed and finally sold in 1954, the year of Lawson's death.

* Henry, Lyell, Jr. Zig-Zag-and Swirl: Alfred W. Lawson's Quest for Greatness, University of Iowa Press, 1991.

When inflation crept up that year, he condemned the Chancellor Nigel Lawson's policy of printing money so sterling would shadow the German deutschmark and said that it was for the UK to join the European Monetary System.

The Lawson's Milk Company grew to a chain of stores, primarily in Ohio.

Associated trees include Western Hemlock, Sitka Spruce, Sugar Pine, Western White Pine, Ponderosa Pine, Grand Fir, Coast Redwood, Western Redcedar, California Incense-cedar, Lawson's Cypress, Tanoak, Bigleaf Maple and several others.

Walters criticisms " of many aspects of Treasury policy, particularly in relation to exchange rate policy " and Thatcher's refusal to dismiss him led to Nigel Lawson's resignation as chancellor in 1989.

Port Orford cedar ( also known as Lawson's Cypress ) and myrtlewood are important export products.

A public art gallery, the Forrester, opened in 1983 in R. A. Lawson's neo-classical Bank of New South Wales building.

The city's name is a misspelling of John Lawson's name, a local settler.

Lawson's parents met at the goldfields of Pipeclay ( now Eurunderee New South Wales ), Niels and Louisa Albury ( 1848 – 1920 ) married on 7 July 1866 ; he was 32 and she, 18.

The marriage was ill-advised due to Lawson's alcohol addiction.

Lawson's first published poem was ' A Song of the Republic ' which appeared in The Bulletin, 1 October 1887 ; his mother's republican friends were an influence.

Lawson's most successful prose collection is While the Billy Boils, published in 1896.

" Lawson's Jack Mitchell story, On The Edge Of A Plain, is often cited as one of the most accomplished examples of the sketch.

Mrs Byers ( née Ward ) was an excellent poet herself and although of modest education, had been writing vivid poetry since her teens in a similar style to Lawson's.