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World in Action employed many leading journalists, among them John Pilger ; Michael Parkinson ; Gordon Burns ; Rob Rohrer ; Nick Davies, Ed Vulliamy and David Leigh of The Guardian ; Alasdair Palmer of the Sunday Telegraph ; John Ware, BBC Panoramas leading investigative reporter ; Anthony Wilson, whose second career as a music impresario was immortalised in the feature film 24 Hour Party People ; Michael Gillard, creator of the Slicker business pages in the satirical magazine Private Eye ; Donal MacIntyre ; the writer Mark Hollingsworth ; Quentin McDermott, since 1999 a leading investigative reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ; Tony Watson, editor of the Yorkshire Post for 13 years and editor-in-chief of the Press Association from December 2006 ; and Andrew Jennings, author of Lords of the Rings, who has campaigned vigorously for more than a decade against corruption in international sport.
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* Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action ( World Conference on Human Rights, 1993 )
Defence Minister Jonathan Aitken was accused by the ITV investigative journalism series World In Action and The Guardian newspaper of secretly doing deals with leading Saudi princes.
He denied all accusations and promised to wield the " sword of truth " in libel proceedings which he brought against The Guardian and the producers of World In Action Granada Television.
The Ugandan groups are also participants in the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund supported by the World Bank.
The World Bank Group Gender Action Plan was created to advance women's economic empowerment and promote shared growth.
As World War II was ending, the Christian Democrats started organizing post-Fascist Italy in coalition with all the other mainstream parties, including the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ), the Italian Socialist Party ( PSI ), the Italian Liberal Party ( PLI ), the Italian Republican Party ( PRI ), the Action Party ( Pd ' A ) and the Labour Democratic Party ( PDL ).
In 1998 Árpád Pusztai said in an interview on a World in Action programme that his group had observed damage to the intestines and immune systems of rats fed the genetically modified potatoes.
The Charity of Nations: Humanitarian Action in a Calculating World, Kumarian Press, 2004
American economist, social and political commentator, Dr. Thomas Sowell identified some negative results of race-based affirmative action in his book, Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study.
A declaration of Principles and Plan of Action were approved in order to bridge the digital gap between developing and developed countries within the World Information Society.
The UN Decade of Disabled Persons ( 1983 – 1993 ) featured a World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons.
In April, 2005 the Oklahoma City Skate Park at Wiley Post Park was renamed the Mat Hoffman Action Sports Park to recognize Mat Hoffman, an Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area resident and businessman that was instrumental in the design of the skate park and is a 10-time BMX World Vert champion.
He largely moved away from historical parts when he played an Italian vineyard owner in California in They Knew What They Wanted ( 1940 ); a South Seas patriarch in The Tuttles of Tahiti ( 1942 ); and an American admiral during World War II in Stand by for Action ( 1942 ).
In 1983, he was interviewed on the Granada television documentary World in Action on how the mentally ill should be treated in the community.
According to Tom Utley, writing in the Daily Telegraph, the site is connected to One World Action, a charity founded by Glenys Kinnock, and to Kinnock herself.
* Magical World Of Toons ( 1998 – 2003 ): Four-hour nightly block that aired from Sunday to Thursday, consisting of three-hour marathons of certain shows like 101 Dalmatians, TaleSpin, Timon & Pumbaa, Toon Disney Doodles, Bonkers, Goof Troop, Quack Pack, Darkwing Duck, Aladdin, Doug, Pepper Ann, Teacher's Pet, Teamo Supremo, Sabrina: The Animated Series, Lloyd in Space, Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action !, House of Mouse and The Weekenders.
His weekly comic strip This Modern World, which comments on current events, appears regularly in over 90 newspapers across the U. S. and Canada as of 2006, as well as on CREDO Action and Daily Kos, where he is its comics curator.
* Current This Modern World comics on CREDO Action
He attended an event on May 11, 2004 at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University entitled " From Thought to Action: Growing Leaders in a Changing World ".
He wrestled there under the ring names 1 – 2 – 3 Kid and X-Pac off and on from 1993 – 2002, World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) under the ring name Syxx, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) under the ring name Syxx-Pac and also under his real name.
*" Mr. Perfect " Curt Hennig ( 1958 – 2003 )-Former professional wrestling champion with American Wrestling Association ( AWA ), National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ), World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ), and World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ).
World War II Medal of Honor recipient PFC Joe E. Mann was born July 8, 1922 in Reardan and was Killed In Action, September 19, 1944 in Best, Netherlands.
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On occasion SPAAGs have been used as very effective direct fire weapons against infantry, for example by American forces during late World War II, in Korea against mass infantry assault, and extensively during the Vietnam War, where for example the U. S. M42 Duster SPAAG ( based on a light tank ) was employed purely for this purpose.
The British tainted small feed cakes with anthrax in the Second World War as a potential means of attacking German cattle for food denial, but never employed the weapon.
The term blitzkrieg is here employed with reference to Germany ’ s efforts to win a quick victory in the First World War and is not associated with the use of armoured or mechanised forces or with airpower.
Before World War II, Croatia's industry was not significant, with the vast majority of the people employed in agriculture.
In its 1937 invasion of China, Japan employed some 50, 000 bicycle troops, and similar forces were instrumental in Japan's march or " roll " through Malaysia in World War II.
Germany used bicycles again in World War II, while the British employed airborne " Cycle-commandos " with folding bikes.
Curry () ( plural, Curries ) is a generic term primarily employed in Western culture to denote a wide variety of dishes originating in Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Thai or other Southern and Southeastern Asian cuisines, as well as New World cuisines influenced by them such as Trinidadian or Fijian.
Image: Various gas masks WWI. jpg | Various gas masks employed on the Western Front and Eastern Front during World War I
The city is known as the site of the culmination of the policy of appeasement employed by Britain and France leading up to World War II.
This latter model was widely used before the rise of the World Wide Web and is still employed by some titles.
Suggesting a moral equivalence between a number of acts carried out by the Allies during the Second World War and the deeds of the Nazis, especially the Final Solution is a common strategy employed by apologists for the Nazis in Germany, such as politicians of the National Democratic Party of Germany.
At the height of its influence during World War II, the OSS employed almost 24, 000 people.
After World War II, voice and radioteletype implementations of the message relay system were employed.
During World War II United States naval forces employed fast wooden PT boats in the South Pacific in a number of roles in addition to the originally envisioned one of torpedo attack.
Initially used for measuring star light, it was employed for the infrared detection of airplanes in the early stages of World War II.
First established as a shipbuilding facility in 1801, the Brooklyn Navy Yard employed 70, 000 people at its peak during World War II and was then the largest employer in the borough.
In Spain's former New World empire, the production of cochineal colors employed thousands of low-paid workers.
The term is not particularly current in modern contexts because the region does not exactly correspond to the sovereign states of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, for which an alternative term, Benelux, was employed after the Second World War, though only to describe them as a trading union.
Magnetic anomaly detectors employed to detect submarines during World War II harnessed the fluxgate magnetometer, an inexpensive and easy to use technology developed in the 1930s by Victor Vacquier of Gulf Oil for finding ore deposits.
During World War II, however, the two countries ' ground forces were often overstretched, leaving their elite paratroopers to be employed as regular infantry.
Operation Fortitude was the codename for a World War II military deception employed by the Allied nations as part of an overall deception strategy ( code named Bodyguard ) during the build-up to the 1944 Normandy landings.
During World War II Daimler-Benz employed slave labour.
This tactic was known as entrism sui generis, to distinguish it from the short-term entry tactic employed before World War II.
Italy employed man-portable flamethrowers and L3 Lf flame tanks during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War of 1935 to 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, and during World War II.
Increased use of various technologies such as pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers as well as new breeds of high yield crops were employed in the decades after the Second World War to greatly increase global food production.
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