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  Former PM's - Official website of the Prime Minister of New Zealand
Robert David Muldoon was born in Auckland in1921.
Muldoon held a number of positions within Government before his elevation to Prime Minister.
Muldoon remained in Parliament as MP for Tamaki until 1991, when he resigned.
www.primeminister.govt.nz /oldpms/1975muldoon.html   (274 words)

  
  Robert Muldoon - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Muldoon was re-elected in 1978 and 1981; however, in both elections, the Labour opposition received more popular votes across the country as a whole.
Muldoon's authoritarian reputation was only exacerbated by his refusal to prevent the 1981 tour by the Springboks, the national rugby squad of apartheid South Africa.
Muldoon justified the snap election by Waring's revolt; however, historians have been critical of this excuse, as Waring said at the time and has repeated since that she would not have denied the Government confidence or supply, and would not have prevented Muldoon from governing.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Robert_Muldoon   (2201 words)

  
  Robert Muldoon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Muldoon believed in sanctity of human life, which he believed meant that both abortion and capital punishment were wrong.
Muldoon was deposed as National Party leader shortly after the election by his deputy leader, Jim McLay.
Muldoon also opposed the legalisation of homosexual behavior when Labour MP Fran Wilde introduced the Homosexual Law Reform Bill during the 1980s, which was passed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Muldoon   (2985 words)

  
 Robert Muldoon
Robert David Muldoon (1921 - 1992) served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 to 1984.
The "Muldoon years" now seem like the last gasp of the paternalistic welfare state in New Zealand, with dirigist fine-tuning of the economy by "Mr Muldoon" himself, specialist in mini-budgets.
The final controversy occurred when Muldoon disputed the date at which power should be handed over to the new government - in the meantime, with a devaluation of the New Zealand dollar expected after the handover, the central bank was forced to spend hundreds or thousands of millions of dollars supporting the currency.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ro/Rob_Muldoon.html   (393 words)

  
 Robert Muldoon Information
Robert Muldoon was born to lower-middle-class parents in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city.
The "Muldoon years" are marked by Muldoon's obstinate and resourceful attempts to maintain New Zealand's "cradle to the grave" welfare state, dating from 1935, in the face of a changing world.
Muldoon's belief in keeping his word on never allowing politics to enter sport resulted in his refusal to bar the 1981 Springbok Tour by the; Springboks, the; national rugby squad of apartheid South Africa.
robert-muldoon.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Robert_Muldoon   (3124 words)

  
 Sir Robert David Muldoon | FaithCentral
Sadly, Jim Muldoon was wounded while serving in France during World War I. Then in 1929, Robert's father suffered a stroke, causing him to lose his power of speech and the use of one of his arms, and he remained in hospital until he died, almost twenty years later.
Robert's mother was left with the task of bringing up their only child during the grim years of the depression.
Robert was only eleven years old when he first began to attending secondary school and, even when he entered the forth form, he was still the youngest and smallest boy in the school.
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 Science Fair Projects - Robert Muldoon
Incentives were introduced in Muldoon's 1979 budget to encourage the conversions, and New Zealand emerged as possibly the first country to have hybrid cars as a commonplace sight.
Muldoon's authoritarian reputation was only exacerbated by his refusal to prevent the tour by the Springboks, the national rugby squad of apartheid South Africa.
Muldoon lived, and remained in Parliament, throughout the Fourth Labour Government 's radical neoliberal reforms, known as Rogernomics.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Robert_Muldoon   (2159 words)

  
 Robert Muldoon: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
Robert David Muldoon (1921 - 1992) served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 to 1984.
The "Muldoon years" now seem like the last gasp of the paternalistic welfare state in New Zealand, with dirigist fine-tuning of the economy by "Mr Muldoon" himself, specialist in mini-budgets.
The final controversy occurred when Muldoon disputed the date at which power should be handed over to the new government - in the meantime, with a devaluation of the New Zealand dollar expected after the handover, the central bank was forced to spend hundreds or thousands of millions of dollars supporting the currency.
www.encyclopedian.com /ro/Robert-Muldoon.html   (547 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Muldoon's hostility was to prove a major problem for McLay's leadership, and undermined all attempts to promote unity within the party.
Later, when Muldoon made a strong public criticism of the entire party leadership, Muldoon (along with loyalist Merv Wellington) were demoted to the lowest ranking within the National caucus.
Muldoon, apparently realising that there was little chance of him regaining the leadership, threw his support behind Jim Bolger, who remained opposed to McLay.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Jim_McLay   (642 words)

  
 Muldoon Sir Robert David - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Muldoon, Sir Robert David (1921-1992), New Zealand politician, leader of the National Party (1974-1986), and Prime Minister (1975-1984).
Borden, Sir Robert Laird (1854-1937), Canadian statesman, and prime minister of Canada (1911-1920), born in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia.
Sir Robert Peel was born near Bury in 1788, and another prime minister to be, David Lloyd George, came into the world in Manchester in 1863.
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 Robert Muldoon at AllExperts
The "Muldoon years" are marked by Muldoon's obstinate and resourceful attempts to maintain New Zealand's "cradle to the grave" welfare state, dating from 1935, in the face of a changing world.
Muldoon's belief in keeping his word on never allowing politics to enter sport resulted in his refusal to bar the 1981 tour by the Springboks, the national rugby squad of apartheid South Africa.
Muldoon refused to have the tax lifted due to the fact that most records were not Kiri Te Kanawa's and "50 to 1, it was those horrible pop groups".
en.allexperts.com /e/r/ro/robert_muldoon.htm   (2885 words)

  
 His Way - Auckland University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Muldoon may have been the most influential member of the third National Government but he was not solely responsible either for all the successes or for all the mistakes of the administration he led and personified.
Muldoon was reluctant to innovate and to a large extent was trapped by past habits, previous policy choices and traditional loyalties.
Muldoon was a populist conservative who sought, by and large, to defend by centralised and interventionist regulation the political, economic and social values and systems that the Liberals and the Savage Labour Government established.
www.auckland.ac.nz /uoa/aup/book/his-way.cfm   (7392 words)

  
 Muldoon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Muldoon is a common name for Irish and Scottish families.
Sir Robert Muldoon - former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Spotty Muldoon - a recurring character in the comedy sketches of Peter Cook
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muldoon   (190 words)

  
 Garnier Robert: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
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 SEVENTH GENERATION
While Robert was in the Army he studied accountancy, and was admitted to the New Zealand Society of Accounts in 1942.
Muldoon's argument was that it was wrong for a government to interfere with anyone's right of free movement.
Muldoon is often attributed as being responsible for these schemes, but Bob Jones argues that they all stemmed from Treasury6.
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 Arts: Dear piggy by Steve Braunias | New Zealand Listener
So there’s the sense that he was meant to write and star in Muldoon; a mature work by a matured entertainer, a New Zealand past brought to life by someone from that past.
But Muldoon’s life is obviously given a dramatic shape; and of course there are passages that demanded the author to imagine things, to write fiction.
Muldoon himself is dated, which is also to say he’s dead and buried.
www.listener.co.nz /printable,184.sm   (2078 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Sir Robert Muldoon (Australian And New Zealand History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Originally a public accountant, he entered parliament in 1960 as a member of the conservative National party and served (1967–72) as finance minister.
Muldoon led his party to victory in the 1975 elections and served in the dual positions of prime minister and finance minister.
Muldoon was knighted in 1984 and resigned from parliament in 1991.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MuldoonSi.html   (277 words)

  
 Baseball dreams - The Boston Globe
Muldoon wants to commemorate Thayer's birthplace with a plaque, which sounds like a quaint, if ineffectual, idea.
Muldoon wants you to think of Casey, to think of poetry, to think of schoolchildren who memorize the nation's most famous poem as a rite of passage, then recite it in assemblies packed with applauding friends and parents.
Robert Muldoon is nuts in a cunning way.
www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2006/03/10/baseball_dreams   (641 words)

  
 Sir Robert Muldoon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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Find where Sir Robert Muldoon is credited alongside another name
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 The Bewildering Adventures of Robert Muldoon - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
Muldoon sensed the presence of evil with his powerful psychic mind as he shoved Harding out of the way as a giant Pteranosaurus swooped, narrowly missing the man and the pussy with his pointy beak.
Muldoon and the weak-ass veterinarian Dr. Harding landed outside a cave that was streaming out zombies like semen streams out of a pulsing cock that just pulled out of a steamy vagina because you don't want to accidently make a baby.
Muldoon hesitated for a moment when he saw a zombie child, but then he unloaded 14 of the missiles into the shuffling child-beast.
www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=64106   (1251 words)

  
 Amazon.com: His Way: A Biography of Robert Muldoon: Books: Barry Gustafson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This the only authorized biography of New Zealand's prime minister, Robert Muldoon-one of the dominant political figures of the last half-century in that country.
Based on many hours of conversation with Muldoon himself as well as colleagues, friends, and family, and wide access to the prime minister's official and private papers and diaries, this book has been awarded the Ian Wards Prize for published historical writing.
Muldoon is shown as a champion of the ordinary people whose vision over time became anachronistic and inflexible.
www.amazon.com /His-Way-Biography-Robert-Muldoon/dp/1869402367   (657 words)

  
 The Adams Motor Page
Robert Adams' machines were built varying from 0.03125 to 27 ohms per set.
Muldoon at this stage, had me well taped up so to speak, My phone, I was informed, was tapped, my mail was intercepted and I was kept under observation.
Inventor Robert Adams appears to have broken the gravity barrier, with his advanced Adams Electric Motor Generator operating in a high state of resonance and apparently tapping gravitational energy.
www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Lab/1287/adams/adamsall.htm   (5873 words)

  
 Muldoon, Sir Robert David. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Muldoon led his party to victory in the 1975 elections and served in the dual positions of prime minister and finance minister.
He attempted to spur economic growth through tax cuts, subsidies to industry, and other basically conservative measures, but growth proved slow and inflation and unemployment marked the years of his tenure.
In the 1984 elections the National party lost to Labour, led by leader David Lange.
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 Muldoon Family Crest
The name Muldoon originally appeared in Gaelic as O Maolduin, which is derived from the word dun, which means fort.
Muldoon, with James, Mary and Michael Muldoon who arrived in New York State in 1804; Mary Muldoon with son Patrick and daughter Ellen settled in Boston Mass.
In the Muldoon coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Muldoon appointed Holyoake to the specially created sinecure of Minister of State.
In 1977, Holyoake was unexpectedly and controversially appointed Governor-General on the advice of the then Prime Minister Robert Muldoon.
This choice was controversial, with many opponents of Muldoon's government claiming that it was a political appointment.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Keith_Holyoake   (768 words)

  
 Y-File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In May, York mathematics Professor Martin Muldoon, of the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, gave a talk with an intriguing title – "Peace, War and Mathematics" – when he connected by broadband with Grade 12 students in Edmonton, Alberta.
Muldoon delivered his talk through advanced videoconferencing from the University’s Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) office in the TEL Building, to students in Centre High Campus.
They also said their interaction with Muldoon made them think further about issues related to mathematics, such as math’s effects on warfare.
www.yorku.ca /yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=2963   (542 words)

  
 Make what you can of poet Paul Muldoon
I received an e-mail from Paul Muldoon once, when I was an under graduate.
Muldoon was a protege of Seamus Heaney, as well as a prodigy whose first book, "New Weather," arrived before his 22nd birthday.
This is, after all, the poet who wrote a book-length poem about Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey's planned utopian colony in Pennsylvania and 90 rhyming haiku - called "instant messages" - addressed to the 19th-century Irish poet Tom Moore.
www.cleveland.com /books/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1160815545295090.xml&coll=2   (469 words)

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