NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR COLORADO POET LAUREATE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 25, 2008 ;     382 words ......being accepted for the position of Colorado Poet Laureate. The Poet Laureate position was created to promote an appreciation...and to honor outstanding Colorado poets. The Poet Laureate will serve as an active advocate for poetry...

Pleasanton searches for its next poet laureate

Oakland Tribune;  April 17, 2007 ;     471 words ...PLEASANTON -- As Cynthia Bryants year as poet laureate comes to an end, the city has begun...hang of it, the time ends. Pleasantons poet laureate program, established eight years ago...Untied States Conference of Mayors. Poet laureate candidates must be Pleasanton residents...

Why General Pinochet's a better bet than Jeremy Clarkson He'd be the first...

The Independent - London;  December 1, 1998 ;     627 words ......SPECULATION over the identity of the Poet Laureate has not exactly hotted up, but it has...if Zephaniah were to be nominated Poet Laureate, he might well insist on doing live...the Queen. He would also be the first Poet Laureate to have written extensively about wearing...

Mayor seeks to make writer's post official Belfast may formally induct...

Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  June 19, 2007 ;     562 words ......create the formal position of Belfast poet laureate. For the past several years, Hurley...himself to informally designate a city poet laureate, but now he has requested the council...wrote the council. "When I started this poet laureate thing with no authority, it was done...

Poet laureate post cut, ousting Baraka

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  July 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Record (Bergen County, NJ) 07-02-2003 Poet laureate post cut, ousting Baraka -- 9/11 verse...Assembly voted Tuesday to eliminate the poet laureate position, effectively firing controversial...Baraka's continued speaking in his role as poet laureate made it impossible to keep him in ...

Fed: Howard apology 'crocodile tears', says Alvarez lawyer

AAP General News (Australia);  July 14, 2005 ;     336 words ......Australia) 07-14-2005 Fed: Howard apology 'crocodile tears', says Alvarez lawyer By David Crawshaw...Newhouse rejected Mr Howard's apology as "crocodile tears". "I don't accept their apology insofar...the country - otherwise it's just crocodile tears." The government today released ...

They'll get crocodile tears in their gravy ; With MPs back in Westminster...

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  May 6, 2008 ;     219 words ......year, when there was the prospect of a General Election. Crocodile tears. MPs are scurrying about being concerned over post office...cannot fathom it, so they smile merrily while shedding those crocodile tears. If you do not go to vote for someone to get on to this...

Qld: Dry those crocodile tears, Beattie tells mining industry

AAP General News (Australia);  June 20, 2001 ;     293 words ......Australia) 06-20-2001 Qld: Dry those crocodile tears, Beattie tells mining industry BRISBANE...business function not to shed any crocodile tears over the overhaul in the state government...dramatically so lets not have too many crocodile tears about all this." Under competition...

crocodile tears

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      36 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 crocodile tears insincere tears or a hypocritical show of grief: from an old belief that crocodiles shed tears while eating their prey Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Don't do a Threshers and end up crying buckets of crocodile tears;...

The Birmingham Post (England);  December 4, 2007 ;     477 words ......known in the industry as Doing a Threshers , where you cry crocodile tears over your damaged profit margin, because naively you didn...that its redemption scheme had been abused. There are those crocodile tears I told you about. But Gap is not alone. There has been a...

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Beazley crocodile tears over Ma Manjimup workers...

M2 Presswire;  December 10, 1999 ;     373 words ......1999-AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Beazley crocodile tears over Manjimup workers exposed in Parliament...workers and their families by crying crocodile tears about the people of Manjimup in the...Beazley comes into the House crying crocodile tears about some little shop he says is...

Cameron cries crocodile tears over 10p tax - Cable.

M2 Presswire;  May 6, 2008 ;     183 words ...M2 PRESSWIRE-6 May 2008-Liberal Democrats: Cameron cries crocodile tears over 10p tax - Cable(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE...involved in the worst kind of political posturing. He cries crocodile tears for those who are losing out from the abolition of the 10p...

Letter: Crocodile tears.(Letters)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  February 4, 2008 ;     121 words ......government policies on post offices, so they are crying crocodile tears over the closure of the post offices. These closures stem...in London. Conservatives in Cardiff Bay are also shedding crocodile tears about closures as under the last Tory government 3,500 post...

'Spoz' our new Poet Laureate; HONOUR: From heartache of the Rover collapse...

Birmingham Mail (England);  October 5, 2006 ;     298 words ......worker was today awarded the title of Birmingham's next Poet Laureate. Former chassis designer Giovanni 'Spoz' Esposito...Rover would collapse and I could become Birmingham's Poet Laureate I would have said to them 'I'll drink what you're...s leave and Patricia Hewitt was on the telly with ...

Fed: Howard crying crocodile tears over journalists: Labor

AAP General News (Australia);  August 30, 2005 ;     363 words ...AAP General News (Australia) 08-30-2005 Fed: Howard crying crocodile tears over journalists: Labor MELBOURNE, Aug 30 AAP - Prime Minister...and bullying public servants, and to me he's just crying crocodile tears now to say they're good blokes. "It's his actions that have...