Dictionary definition: ACT

Article: Roger's daughter. (Ruth Richardson New Zealand's finance ...
The Economist (US);  August 3, 1991 ;     700+ words ...WHEN Sir Roger Douglas, New Zealand's the minister of ... Richardson, finance minister in the new National Party government. Miss Richardson has ... 20). The old suffer too. The National Party had promised to remove the income ...

Article: Roger Douglas superstar of ACT campaign launch
The Press;  October 13, 2008 ;     408 words ... ... political party." Then came former finance minister Sir Roger Douglas, who hit the launch - and the party he founded - with a ... Rodney Hide used a slowly read nine-page speech to attack National Party leader John Key. "He can't risk putting any difference ...

Article: Unlucky Jim: New Zealand.(Jim Bolger's National ...
The Economist (US);  October 19, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... the outcome. His right-of-centre National Party government has been pursuing a mix ... government of the then-Labour Sir Roger Douglas, now ACT's grand old man. ACT surprised ... manage to do so. In that case, the National Party probably has the best chance of forming ...

Article: FOR ANYONE old enough to remember footless tights the first time ...
New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand);  June 6, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... around, Maurice Williamson's recent explanation of the National Party's broadband policy was somewhat surreal. After much internal ... Act. Speaking of Act, just what part of no, thanks does Roger Douglas not understand? Seemingly spurred by National's lurch ...

Article: National Party left exposed
The Nelson Mail;  September 18, 2008 ;     493 words ... ... whose previous work includes the 1996 documentary Someone Else's Country, assessing the economic changes wrought by Sir Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson during their respective reigns as finance minister - had his story trumped by the book, but instead ...

Article: DESIGNWORKS ENTERPRISE IG VISIONARY LEADER : Sir Roger ...
New Zealand Management;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... bear traces of the legacies of Sir Roger Douglas. In their view, Douglas is the politician ... the following year. He established Roger Douglas Associates, an international consultancy ... year's Top 200 Awards judges say Roger Douglas is a unique and extraordinary man with ...

Article: Roger Douglas
The Press;  May 8, 2004 ;     297 words ...Roger Douglas claims that the policies he implemented from 1984 were "true to Labour policy" (April 30). It would be possible, but tedious ...