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  Paul Keating - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Using his extensive contacts, Keating gained Labor endorsement for the seat of Blaxland in the western suburbs of Sydney, and was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1969 election, at the age of 25.
Keating was a backbencher for most of the Whitlam Labor government, but briefly became Minister for Northern Australia in 1975, one of the youngest ministers in Australian history.
Keating interpreted his 1993 election win as a mandate to pursue his "big picture" agenda, and was encouraged in this by the left-leaning intellectual classes of Sydney and Melbourne.
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 Charles Keating - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Keating was also instrumental in the (rather ineffective) obscenity prosecution of pornographer Larry Flynt in 1976 in Cincinnati.
In September 1990, Keating was criminally charged with having duped Lincoln's customers into buying worthless junk bonds of American Continental Corporation; he was convicted in state court in 1992 of fraud, racketeering and conspiracy and received a 10 year prison sentence.
In the 1980s, Keating had donated some $1,250,000 to Mother Teresa; during his state trial, she wrote a letter on his behalf to presiding Judge Lance Ito, saying that she was not informed about his business but she knew him as a man who was generous towards the poor.
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 Paul Keating - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keating was educated at Catholic schools: he was the first practising Catholic to lead the Labor Party since James Scullin retired in 1935.
Hawke and Keating worked as a successful partnership during the first two terms of the Labor government (1983-87), with Hawke playing the statesman and populist leader while Keating was the political attack dog.
Keating interpreted his 1993 election win as a mandate to pursue his "big picture" agenda, and was encouraged in this by the intellectual classes of Sydney and Melbourne, who adopted Keating as a hero.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Paul_Keating   (1199 words)

  
 Paul Keating - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Through the unions Keating met other Labor luminaries such as Laurie Brereton, Graham Richardson and Bob Carr, and also developed a friendship with former New South Wales Labor Premier Jack Lang, then in his 90s.
Despite all these factors, Keating succeeded in winning back the electorate with a fear campaign on Fightback, memorable for Keating's litany of "10% on this, 10% on that", and led Labor to an unexpected election victory.
During the Howard years Keating has made occasional speeches bitterly criticising his successor's social policies, and disavowing perceived weaknesses in his own policies (such as those on East Timor), but stayed out of Labor Party affairs.
www.claremore.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Paul_Keating   (1337 words)

  
 Mark R. Levin on NRO
Keating, his associates, and his friends contributed $56,000 for Senator McCain's two House races in 1982 and 1984, and $54,000 for his 1986 Senate race.
Keating also provided his corporate plane and/or arranged for payment for the use of commercial or private aircraft on several occasions for travel by Senator McCain and his family, for which Senator McCain ultimately provided reimbursement when called upon to do so.
Keating, Senator McCain exercised poor judgment in intervening with the regulators without first inquiring as to the Bank Board's position in the case in a more routine manner.
www.nationalreview.com /contributors/levin040501.shtml   (652 words)

  
 The Ancestry of Ryan Patrick Keating, Photos, Birthdays, Anniversaries
Keating Although Keating is found as a surname in England, where it derives from the Old English Cyting, from cyt, meaning `kite`, in Ireland it is almost always of Norman origin.
The most famous historical bearer of the name was Geoffrey Keating (or Seathrun Céitinn) the poet and historian who lived in the first half of the seventeenth century and wrote Foras Feasa ar Eireann, a narrative history of the country defending it against the accounts given by foreign writers..
Sean Keating (1889-1977) was an artist specialising in traditional scenes, particularly of the Aran islands and was president of the Royal Hibernian Academy for fourteen years.
www.tribalpages.com /tribes/ryankeating   (490 words)

  
 Dead Poets Society Movie Philosophy: Death of a Romantic - John Keating   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keating claims that occupations are noble pursuits to sustain life, but passion is the reason to live, showing his romantic side.
Keating knew where that would lead them, and once he realized his students were following a similar path, he tried in vain to warn them of the consequences.
Keating was the newest teacher at the school, the one with the most unorthodox teaching methods.
www.antiromantic.com /dps/art_keating.asp   (2263 words)

  
 Pat Keating's Homepage
Keating and Cho (2005) "Influence of prosodic factors on segment articulations and acoustics in English", poster presented at October ASA meeting in Minneapolis.
Keating, Manis, Bruno, Nakamoto (2005) "Perception of coarticulation in gated words by dyslexic and non-dyslexic children", poster presented at May ASA meeting in Vancouver.
Keating: "Word-level phonetic variation in large speech corpora", paper presented at The Word as a Phonetic Unit in October 1997, ZAS Papers in Linguistics 11, ed.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu /people/keating/keating.htm   (2557 words)

  
 Keating coat of arms
The Keatings of Norman origin themselves first came to Ireland with the Anglo-Norman invaders at the end of the twelfth century, when they settled in Co. Wexford.
From the year 1302 onwards Keatings held many positions of importance as sheriffs, members of parliament etc. The best known of these was John Keating (1635 - 1695), who was Lord Chief Justice and a notable figure in the parliament of 1689.
In even more modern times, Justin Keating was a popular and well known host of Irish Television programs focussing on agriculture, who later entered politics and was minister for agriculture in the Fine Gael - Labour government of the 1970’s and a most popular figure up to his untimely death.
www.araltas.com /features/keating   (556 words)

  
 Hafele-Keating Experiment
Hafele and Keating predicted a time difference of 144 ns on an eastward flight around the world for which the flight time was 41.2 hours.
Hafele and Keating predicted time shifts of -184 ns for an eastward flight around the world and a shift of +96 for a westward flight.
Hafele and Keating are credited with an experimental measurement which confirms time dilation and matches predictions with an accuracy of about 10%.
hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu /hbase/relativ/airtim.html   (859 words)

  
 Bulletin - Paul Keating   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keating was fatally wounded by the 17% interest rates, and the 100,000 workers who had lost their jobs in the recession.
Keating didn’t have this discipline; by the end of his tenure, he was coming in at 11 or midday.
Keating once said governments could be masters of the national identity, but the mastery had to be created “about steering the boat, not rowing it”.
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 Keating, Paul on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keating also advocated Australia's withdrawal from even nominal British rule and its adoption of a purely republican mode of government.
In the elections of 1996 Labor was defeated by a Liberal-National coalition led by John Howard.
Keating stepped down as Labor party leader and then resigned his seat in parliament, ending a 27-year career in politics.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/KeatingP1a.asp   (486 words)

  
 Living Spiritual Teachers: Thomas Keating   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Father Thomas Keating is one of the foremost teachers of contemplative prayer in the Christian tradition.
Keating is the former abbot of St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, and has resided at St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado.
Father Keating, along with M. Basil Pennington, is co-founder of the Centering Prayer movement and of Contemplative Outreach, a worldwide nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging the practice of this Christian form of meditation.
www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/blank/item_8538.html   (517 words)

  
 Is John McCain a Crook? Chris Suellentrop
Federal auditors were investigating Keating's banking practices, and Keating, fearful that the government would seize his SandL, sought intervention from a number of U.S. senators.
Keating was a former naval aviator himself, and the two men became friends.
The Senate Ethics Committee probe of the Keating Five began in November 1990, and committee Special Counsel Robert Bennett recommended that McCain and Glenn be dropped from the investigation.
www.slate.com /id/1004633   (737 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Blue Peter's Caron Keating dies
Keating, the daughter of television presenter Gloria Hunniford, presented Blue Peter during the late 1980s.
Details of Keating's death were confirmed by family friend Peter Powell, a former BBC Radio 1 DJ and now a showbusiness agent.
Keating had spent the last two years in the sunshine of Byron Bay, Australia, although her family home remained in Fowey, Cornwall.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3625457.stm   (630 words)

  
 H.R.F. Keating   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
H.R.F. Keating is one of the best known of contemporary British crime novelists, especially for his long series of Inspector Ghote mysteries set in India.
It is one of the rarest forms known to literature, a detective novel in verse, Keating developing his rhyme-crime in nearly 300 fourteen-line stanzas.
During a writing career spanning forty years, Keating has won many honours for both fiction and non-fiction, most notably the awarded of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 1996 for a lifetime's achievement.
www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/hrfkeating.html   (1307 words)

  
 KEATING : Canadian Rock Band : Keating Music : Edmonton, Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keating EP released August 2004 featuring tracks Angels, Picture, Beautiful Again, One Step, Mad Pursuit, No Not I. Keating is fronted by Cindy Keating on lead vocals, acoustic guitars and piano.
Keating is fronted by Cindy Keating on lead vocals, acoustic guitars and piano.
Keating is a four piece melodic rock band based out of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
www.keatingmusic.com   (1421 words)

  
 index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keating, ‘The influence of inhomogeneity on the propagation of ultrasound in wood’, Ultrasonics, Vol.
Keating, M. Klíma and J. Rott, ‘A reconfigurable acousto-optical implementation of the Hough transform’, Proceedings of European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 1998, p.189, Glasgow, Scotland, September 1998.
Keating ‘The influence of inhomogeneity on the propagation of ultrasound in wood’, Proceedings of the 10th Int.
www.cs.may.ie /~jkeating   (3937 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Geoffrey Keating
After obtaining the degree of Doctor of Divinity at the University of Bordeaux he returned about 1610 to Ireland and was appointed to the cure of souls at Uachtar Achaidh in the parish of Knockraffan, near Cahir, where he put down the then prevalent abuse of delaying Mass until the neighbouring gentry arrived.
In 1613 a spy reported "Dr. Keating in the Countie of Tiperarie", and in 1615 another spy reported that there was "in the diocese of Lismore Father Geoffrey Keating, a preacher and Jesuit, resorting to all parts of the diocese".
Geoffrey Keating was proficient in the Irish, Latin, and English languages and his writings prove him a consummate master of Catholic theology, Irish style, native history, and legendary lore.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/16048b.htm   (962 words)

  
 Keating Technologies Inc. Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keating Technologies represents leading manufacturers and works with distributor and reseller partners by bringing technology products and services to the Canadian consumer through retail, corporate, government, and education markets.
We are proud to announce the launch of Keating branded products featuring premium-quality notebooks, digital displays and display mounts, competitively priced and supported by our award-winning one-stop Rest Assured Services to ensure your complete product and service satisfaction.
Keating Customer Care Services is the outsourced technical support and warranty logistics centre for consumer electronics and high technology manufacturers.
www.keating.com   (180 words)

  
 Dead Poets Society
Keating nevertheless urges Neil to talk again to his father in order to be able to stay in the play.
Keating, encouraged you boys to organize this club and to use it as a source of inspiration for reckless and self-indulgent behavior.
Keating, both in and out of the classroom, encouraged Neil Perry to follow his obsession with acting when he knew all along it was against the explicit order of Neil's parents.
www.stevencscheer.com /deadpoetssociety.htm   (2902 words)

  
 Chapter V: The Keating Five   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keating, all 6-feet-5 of him, struck a Superman pose and ripped open his shirt to display a hand-drawn skull and crossbones over the letters FHLBB - the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.
In spinning his side of the Keating story, McCain adopted the blanket defense that Keating was a constituent and that he had every right to ask his senators for help.
During Keating's eventual trial, the prosecution produced a parade of elderly investors who had lost their life's savings by investing in American Continental junk bonds.
www.azcentral.com /specials/special39/articles/1003mccainbook5.html   (2742 words)

  
 Karl Keating - Media Photos
Once again Karl Keating has provided readers with something that is as informative as it is entertaining and as useful as it is inspiring.
Keating will open your eyes with thoroughly researched information about the efforts, origins, and threats presented by the usual suspects.
As Karl Keating defends the truth of the Catholic Church against a host of attacks, he will confirm what you have always suspected but may not have been able to prove.
www.catholic.com /media/keating.asp   (705 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Caron Keating
Keating's Blue Peter assignments required her to jump under waterfalls, dive with sharks and abseil down skyscrapers.
Caron Keating was credited with adding a sense of 1980s style and fashion to the previously conservative children's programme Blue Peter.
Keating took a break from her TV career to raise her sons Charlie (above) and Gabriel with husband Russ Lindsay.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_pictures/3625767.stm   (268 words)

  
 Former Governor Bumble Frank Keating
Unfortunately this image of Governor Keating was short lived and over the course of his administration his approval rating has declined markedly, to the point that he's considered by many to be a liability rather than an asset for the state.
Keating became enraged, terminated the news conference and afterwards gripped the arm of Paul English of the Oklahoman and poked at Mr.
According to statements from Keating and his staffers the drug was prescribed by a doctor for the treatment of "a sore neck".
www.bubbaworld.com /bumblefrank.html   (1629 words)

  
 Keating Studios, Inc.  Custom Stained and Faceted Glass Creation, Installation and Protective Covering   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A 15 year veteran of the industry, Brian Keating uses a "hands on" approach in managing his studio.
Brian Keating spent several years working under the tutelage of Richard Marks, a prominent figure in the stained glass industry, creating, installing, protecting and repairing stained glass.
Upon the retirement of Richard Marks, and seeing a need for personal service and competitive pricing, Keating Studios was born.
www.keatingstudios.com   (241 words)

  
 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: Keating Home Page (County Cork / Jacksonville, IL)
A bit of detail--TIMOTHY KEATING was born Abt.
Daniel's obituary states that he was survived by a son, Timothy A. Keating of Seattle; five daughters, Mrs.
Edward Keating first appears in the 1871-1872 Jacksonville City Directory in which he is listed as a bartender.
familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/k/e/a/John-M-Keating   (509 words)

  
 See The Latest Exhibit Online
Keating, carrying a portable studio in his backpack, created his expressionistic landscapes on site in the towns and beaches of Bahias de Huatulco.
At the exhibit in Oaxaca, opening July 2, Keating donated 10% of the proceeds to the Casa de Cultura in Huatulco.
Keating was interviewed about his plans for projects in Huatulco and future exhibits in Mexico by a reporter from Televisa.
members.aol.com /huatulcart   (255 words)

  
 EUI - SPS - Profile: Michael Keating
Michael Keating joined the EUI in 2000 and is currently head of department.
This project, led by Michael Keating and John Loughlin, was part of a wider study of state and nation in the United Kingdom coordinated by the Constitution Unit at University College, London and financed by the Leverhulme Trust.
This project, led by Michael Keating and John Loughlin, is funded by the British Economic and Social Research Council from 2001 until 2004.
www.iue.it /SPS/People/Faculty/CurrentProfessors/bioKeating.shtml   (1269 words)

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