(1) We describe a patient with multiple fibrofolliculomas (FF), tricodiscomas (TD) and acrochordons (Birt-Hogg-Dubé) associated with intestinal polyps.
(2) Later, Lord Birt said he admired the "bold, buccaneering spirit" of Rupert Murdoch but warned that Sky was "a financial behemoth now dwarfing other players, including the BBC, financially".
(3) "When I joined I took the salary I was offered, which happened to be exactly the same as my predecessor [Birt] and when I left my basic salary was something like half what the current director general [Thompson] is now receiving," he said.
(4) After the John Birt regime, however, his ebullient leadership style involving "cut the crap" and "let's make it happen" initiatives was welcomed by staff,who had felt creativity had been repressed for far too long under the weight of bureaucracy.
(5) Birt recalled how Frost only got the interview with Nixon because he raised the money personally, outbidding a US broadcaster.
(6) Or the Russian model: outgoing president picks incoming president (President Birt or President Levy)?
(7) Hall became director of news and current affairs in 1990 and was regarded as one of Birt's key lieutenants after he became director general in 1992.
(8) Birt became Frost's protege and went on to produce the Nixon interviews in 1977.
(9) In 1996, a former World Service US affairs analyst Michael Moran wrote after the Birt coup, that what had been "a journalist's dream, one where more than any other organisation on this planet the inherent value of the story is what counted", had became dominated by "new-age management consultancy", managers who spoke in the jargon of producer's choice and delayering.
(10) In late 1969 or early 1970, John Birt, then an editor for Granada's World in Action (and later the director general of the BBC), interviewed Frost at the Algonquin Hotel in New York.
(11) The BBC has been sensitive to the tax status of its staff since the so-called "Armanigate" scandal in 1993, when it was revealed that then director general John Birt was actually employed on a freelance basis, through his own company, John Birt Productions.
(12) Frost's second legacy, Birt said, was he inventing the modern interview.
(13) After Alasdair Milne resigned and John Birt achieved power, this centralisation was accelerated.
(14) Hodgson was described in her former boss John Birt's memoirs as an "extraordinarily smart operator" and has the advantage that she already has experience of working within the BBC and the trust.
(15) And my anxiety is that if [the government] are going to keep on treating the chair of the BBC Trust like this through charter renewal, you’re not going to have a robust discussion, you’re going to have a caving in.” On Monday, it emerged that the BBC had agreed to shoulder the £700m cost of providing free TV licences for the over-75s from 2020 – a deal negotiated in secret, It was subsequently criticised by several former senior BBC figures including the former director general Lord Birt and the former chair Sir Christopher Bland.
(16) Two familial observations of Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome are reported.
(17) Now, Birt, a fellow Catholic Liverpudlian, was persuaded that Black would “keep it clean”.
(18) In fact Birt has been unfairly turned into a wicked uncle.
(19) Does £145.50 a year until 2016 fit that crucial Birt bill?
(20) It is no accident that Birt's two jobs since have been at number 10 and at McKinsey's.
Bort
Definition:
(n.) Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mouse hybridoma antibodies (IgG and IgM) to O side chain determinants of Escherichia coli strain Bort (O18ac:K1:H7) were evaluated for their in vitro and in vivo activities against E. coli strains.
(2) inoculation of LVS did not survive a lethal challenge with either Salmonella typhimurium W118 or Escherichia coli O118 BORT at any time, nor could mice given sublethal doses of S. typhimurium, E. coli, or Mycobacterium bovis BCG survive lethal doses of LVS.
(3) Since there are conflicting reports in the literature on a possible relationship between the K1 capsular polysaccharide (CP) content of Escherichia coli and its susceptibility to killing, we reexamined this issue in a strain that had a smooth lipopolysaccharide (LPS) phenotype (E. coli O18:K1:H7 Bort) and in a strain with a deep rough LPS phenotype (E412, spontaneously agglutinable: K1:H-).
(4) challenges of LVS but not Salmonella typhimurium W118 or Escherichia coli 018:K1:H7 strain BORT.
(5) In contrast, at equivalent but lower levels of K1 CP content, E412 but not strain Bort was lysed by normal human serum.
(6) Murine hybridoma antibodies directed against the capsule and O-side chain determinants of the Escherichia coli strain Bort (018ac:K1:H7) were evaluated for their ability to enhance bactericidal activity of cord blood against K1 E. coli strains possessing O antigens common in neonatal E. coli infection, i.e.