John Turner
John Turner
John Napier Wyndham Turner, PC, CC, QCis an English born Canadian lawyer and politician, who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada from June 30 to September 17, 1984...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth7 June 1929
CountryCanada
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There wasn't a cleanup issue on the FWP land.
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I heard this pop, pop, pop! It sounded like it was circling almost, so I ran outside to see what it was. (There was a) big boom and the pieces started falling.
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I don't know. I guess I'm tired of chasing city rats.
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There are going to be a lot of people who will tell you 'you can't do that' or 'it's too dangerous' or 'why would you ever consider doing something like that.' And I think for everybody, it's a message that it takes courage and it takes a sense of purpose to come back to your dreams that you may have had as a child and continue to pursue them.
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This scientific center will do a lot of that type of work with food products coming from South and Central America.
Yes, ma'am, I have. But I'd like to try to set it right.
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Part of me is worried that we have a consumer-driven mentality that my health care is a commodity and it's up for the best bidder. That's very concerning because that's not the way health care should be delivered.
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That could point to some mechanism of climate change we don't understand, a failing in these models, or just a result of natural climate variability.
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Greenhouse gases could be having a bigger impact in Antarctica than across the rest of the world, and we don't understand why.
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We wanted to open the bathing area for residents while the rest of the excavation was being completed. We recognize there is still much work to be done, and it will be completed before the opening of the bathing season.
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We have the classic global warming signal. It is like the blanket on the bed: When we wrap the Earth with a blanket of greenhouse gases... we trap heat under it at the expense of the atmosphere above, which then cools.
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When he was a younger man, Jimmy used to go in for a few beers. He used to tease me because I never drank anything but Coke.
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You reduce the cost of labs if you buy for here in Atlanta not trying to staff five other labs, ... There's a great deal of efficiency.
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Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.