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  Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Web of evasions failed to hide guilt over Ritz bil
Aitken claims he did not tell the desk he was leaving and that his wife checked out and paid his bill later in the afternoon.
Aitken claimed that he did not ask for a bill at the time, and his wife mistakenly paid half the bill and was given a receipt, which later turned out to be the last page of Ayas's bill.
Aitken did not attempt to correct these deceptions until 14 days later when he was forced to produce the documents at a meeting with Sir Robin after the prime minister had said he was not happy with the situation and suggested that the 'receipt' was sent to the Guardian.
www.guardian.co.uk /aitken/Story/0,2763,208506,00.html   (872 words)

  
 Former British cabinet minister charged with perjury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Aitken denounced the allegations as "wicked lies" and announced that he was going to sue the Guardian and Granada TV/World in Action, who had repeated the allegations, for libel.
Aitken subsequently lost the libel action and, on May 21 of this year, was charged with perjury, perverting the course of justice and conspiracy to pervert the cause of justice.
Aitken met the King, using Ayas as an intermediary, and was able to secure a commitment that the cancellation of the Al Yamaha contract would be overruled.
www.wsws.org /news/1998/jun1998/mp-j12.shtml   (1168 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Jonathan Aitken: a timeline
Aitken cleared of wrongdoing after the correspondence between he and the Guardian is sent to the Cabinet Secretary and John Major.
Aitken's libel case against the Guardian and Granada collapses when evidence shows that he, his family and friends had lied to the court.
Aitken becomes a representative for the arms company GEC-Marconi, who are believed to have sought his Saudi connections.
www.guardian.co.uk /aitken/Story/0,2763,207503,00.html   (801 words)

  
 Early pioneers Of Houston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bill and Maisie were among the first children to attend school in Houston in 1916.
Bill was five years old when he arrived in Houston in 1914.
Bill and Betty continued to live on the farm until his death in January 1993.
district.houston.bc.ca /html/earlypioneers.htm   (4043 words)

  
 William H. Aitken   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Among Early Birds whose first flights were in gliders is Bill Aitken, now of Jacksonville, FLa. In 1909, he parlayed a 40-second glider ride at the Philadelphia country club into a three-years job demonstrating and selling gliders at $75 apiece.
William H. Aitken was born on March 8, 1887 at Milton, Massachusetts.
In August, 1909, Aitken won a cup for making two hops off the beach cliffs at Cafe des Beaux Arts, Huntington, Long Island, N. Next came the Boston indoor show with Aitken on the outside demonstrating in Franklin Park, where he covered some 600 feet, towed my manpower through two 100-foot sash cords.
www.rcooper.0catch.com /eaitken.htm   (331 words)

  
 Profile of Bill Aitken MSP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bill Aitken was a member of Glasgow City Council from 1976 to 1999, where he acted as leader of the opposition twice, Bailie of the City three times and Convener of Licensing.
Born in 1947, Bill Aitken was educated at Allan Glen's School, Glasgow.
Among Bill Aitken's interests are reading, football, foreign travel and wining and dining with friends.
www.billaitken.msp.org.uk /profile.html   (143 words)

  
 HLRC: Monthly Meeting Minutes
Sergio reported that Bill Burke will be in Texas at the end of January, 2005, and is available to teach a trail leadership class.
Bill Mallin reported that Bill Burke stated that there was a limit of 8 cars, but each car could carry passengers.
Bill Mallin volunteered to talk with Bill Burke about the details and any prerequisites for the class and report back to the club.
www.houstonlandroverclub.com /MM-12-01-2004.html   (314 words)

  
 Presentation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
At the 1999 Christmas Party Past President Bill Aitken (right) was taken by surprise when President Jack Cunnison called him forward to receive a Paul Harris Fellowship.
Bill and his wife Isobel have acted as hosts to several Rotarians and ambassadorial students from overseas.
Bill has been a most active member and although taken aback, he duly thanked his fellow members for the honour bestowed on him.
www.longniddryrotary.org /frames/aitken.htm   (135 words)

  
 Bill Aitken - TheBestLinks.com - April 15, Conservative Party (UK), TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1947, ...
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Bill Aitken (15 April, 1947) is a member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow.
www.thebestlinks.com /Bill_Aitken.html   (103 words)

  
 Writing Your Scottish Family History
William Aitken (Bill) glanced up at the clock on the wall of the workshop and saw it was nearing the end of his shift.
Bill rushed from the room and ran downstairs taking two at a time and knocked on the door of Mrs Anderson.
Bill sat down on his chair by the fireside, lit his pipe and smiled to himself.
www.scottish-genealogy.co.uk /familytree/index.cfm?ID=14   (707 words)

  
 Nabalco Staff & Employees' Superannuation Plans (Russell.com)
Bill Aitken's introduction to superannuation couldn't have come at a worse time.
Bill says the trustees generally found the arrangements difficult because, "we had no knowledge of the investment personnel at each fund manager, or their movements, who was good at what, and the like.
Bill says a major benefit of choosing Russell was also the fact that it is an international organisation.
russell.com /au/Institutional_Investors/Client_Testimonials/Nabalco.asp   (469 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Scotland | Land reform bill wins support
MSPs had spent two days voting on a series of proposed amendments to the bill but by the time of the vote the main provisions -the right to roam in the countryside and the right of a crofting community to buy its own land - remained intact.
Tory MSP Bill Aitken said: "This bill has nothing to do with land reform and everything to do with the other parties in this parliament being obsessed by replaying the class wars of 200 years ago.
Mr Aitken tabled a number of amendments in a last-ditch attempt to have that part of the bill struck out but failed.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/2686445.stm   (625 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT Travel: A travel feature on Arunachal Pradesh in India.
Bill Aitken is Scottish by birth and a naturalized Indian by choice.
He has lived in an ashram, worked as the secretary to a maharani, undertaken hair-raising expeditions on the vintage steam railway and written a variety of books and articles.
Aitken was 50 years old when he first got on a bike.
www.rediff.com /travel/1998/mar/21arun.htm   (1516 words)

  
 India Books and Music - Sri Sathya Sai Baba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Miracles like free schools and universities, super-speciality hospitals which provide free treatment to all and revolutionary projects like the one which has brought drinking water to a million villagers in drought-prone Rayalaseema.
Aitken is a rarity-a genuine spiritual seeker with a keen eye for cant and superstition.
His study is neither a hagiographic exercise in myth-making nor a dry, objective account of the Sai's life.
www.indiaclub.com /html/14371.htm   (305 words)

  
 NEWS CLIP: Biden Protests Inaction on Rail Security Bill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Joe Biden is blocking the nominations of two Bush administration officials to try to force the Senate to vote on a bill aimed at protecting Amtrak from terrorist attacks.
It is the first time in his nearly 30 years in the Senate that the Delaware Democrat has put a "hold" on a nomination.
The bill Biden wants action on is the Rail Security Act.
biden.senate.gov /newsroom/details.cfm?id=181383&   (523 words)

  
 Indiaclub.com Search Results - ProductID: 8950
Aitken’s need to search, however, was genuine, keeping him in this country for over forty years, restlessly traveling its hills and plains and becoming, in the process, vastly knowledgeable about the country’s history, religions and geography.
In this fascinating account of his travels through the Deccan, Aitken attempts to explain the lure of the awesome plateau country to which he returned every year for twelve years, mesmerized by a rocky landscape in which theology and topography are hard to disentangle.
Aitken investigates gods, godmen and cults in search of the truly spiritual, finding it in Sai Baba of Puttaparthi, among others.
www.indiaclub.com /shop/searchresults.asp?prodstock=8950   (478 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
He looked at the religion of Hindus and at the social structure of Hindus.
Bill Aitken has been bitten by the crazy bug of trekking.
But he walks away from the established trekking routes and wanders through the Himalaya from Arunachal to Kashmir, from the heights of Zanskar and Nanda Devi to the smaller towns and resorts that dot Kimaoan and Garhwal.
www.telegraphindia.com /1030411/asp/opinion/story_1863653.asp   (497 words)

  
 Scottish Conservatives - AITKEN SLAMS LOCKERBIE JAIL "COVER-UP"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Conservative Deputy Justice Spokesman, Bill Aitken MSP, today slammed the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Prison Service for "unacceptable secrecy" surrounding the medical and other treatment which may have been provided to convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi.
After considerable controversy surrounding the costs involved in flying a hairdresser from prison in Stirling to the jail at Camp Zeist in Holland, Mr Aitken asked the Executive what medical and other services had been provided to Al Megrahi using personnel from Scotland, only to be told that the matter was "confidential." Mr Aitken said:
Bill Aitken: To ask the Scottish Executive when it anticipates that the
www.scottishtories.org.uk /pressrelease.asp?ID=1402   (466 words)

  
 The Sunday Tribune - Books
It comes as a pleasant surprise that somebody who enjoys the foothills or the middle mountains could actually dare to write such a book and even better (overcoming the "mine is bigger than yours" syndrome) some publisher has the courage to bet his money on it.
However, Bill Aitken is Bill Aitken and Indian to the marrow of his bones, who hiked overland from England in 1959 and never went back.
He fell in love with this functional anarchy that we call home and became a naturalised citizen.
www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20041031/spectrum/book4.htm   (461 words)

  
 Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - Washington, D.C. - Tea and Sympathy - 1/10/05
Similarly, in the insular world of the all-male school, to people like Laura’s husband Bill (Carl Randolph), men who are not the traditional macho, muscular “regular fellows” are considered just as threatening as Communists were in the larger world.
He is afraid to admit to his feelings, preferring to hide behind the stereotype of the tough man, always in control.
The rest of the cast is fine, although Bill Aitken as Tom’s father registers especially strongly with the shifting blend of pride, anger, pity and frustration he feels toward a son he can’t understand.
www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/dc/dc173.html   (473 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Attendees: Donna Adams, David Aitken, Bill Barnes, Ray Borg, Kathleen Bradley, Michael Byrne, Dick Calagiovanni, Ray Cerio, Pat Dailey, Jeff Eades, Kathy Filipkowski, Alex Henn, Bob Larimore, Laura Madelone, Bill Phipps, Eugene Renske, George Stafford.
There is a need to know where the funds are coming from when donations are targeted to go to the endowment fund.
Motion to approve the treasurer’s report as corrected was made by David Aitken and seconded by Jeff Eades.
www.rway.com /su-alumni/minutes/2004-09_Draft_Minutes.doc   (1120 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Divining the Deccan : a motorbike to the heart of India
Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Subjects: Aitken, Bill -- Travel -- India -- Deccan.
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