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Goodman


Definition:

  • (n.) A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" -- sometimes used ironically.
  • (n.) A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly.

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  • (1) James Goodman, chairman of the Wyre Forest GPs' Association, said: "We didn't necessarily fully support the changes at the start of the process.
  • (2) Maberley told him there were 6,000 instances of phone hacking, although only one case had been prosecuted, involving the royal reporter Clive Goodman, who subsequently went to jail.
  • (3) He said ANC lawyers would go to court to force the Goodman gallery in Johannesburg to remove a painting of the president, Jacob Zuma, from the exhibition and from its website .
  • (4) The culture, media and sport select committee was also damning of the police, saying Scotland Yard should have broadened its original investigation in 2006, and not just focused on Clive Goodman, the NoW's royal reporter.
  • (5) Since then, a string of allegations have surfaced that have cast doubt on the notion that phone tapping at the paper was down to one rogue reporter, Clive Goodman, acting alone.
  • (6) Scotland Yard and the Press Complaints Commission also found no evidence of the involvement in hacking of anybody at the paper other than Goodman.
  • (7) Goodman deceived us all, the witnesses sorrowfully admitted.
  • (8) He suggested that this undermined the News of the World's claim that Goodman, the paper's former royal reporter who was jailed for phone hacking in January 2007, was a "rogue reporter".
  • (9) Cameron offered him the job after the local elections in May 2007 and asked him about the court case which had led to Goodman and Mulcaire's convictions.
  • (10) At the time, News International said it knew of no other journalist who was involved in hacking phones and that Goodman had acted without their knowledge.
  • (11) The suppressed legal cases are linked to the jailing in January 2007 of a News of the World reporter, Clive Goodman, for hacking into the mobile phones of three royal staff, an offence under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
  • (12) The News of the World has always maintained that Goodman and Mulcaire were acting alone without the knowledge of senior journalists.
  • (13) But Goodman added: "The line between advice on policy (which Crosby doesn't give) and advice on strategy (which he certainly does) isn't the iron wall that Downing Street and CCHQ would like to assert: the one tends to meld into the other.
  • (14) The report of the inquiry, which helped bring down the Irish government of the day, found fraud and serious illegality in Goodman's companies in the 1980s that had involved not just the faking of documents, but also the commissioning of bogus official stamps, including those of other countries, to misclassify carcasses; passing off of inferior beef trimmings as higher-grade meat; cheating of customs officers; and institutionalised tax evasion.
  • (15) He certainly never expected anything like it back in 2007, when his committee was assured by Hinton and others that the News of the World's royal correspondent , Clive Goodman, was the only reporter to have engaged in phone hacking.
  • (16) Claim number three: a single rogue reporter [Clive Goodman] was responsible.
  • (17) Sentencing Mulcaire, the judge said: "As to counts 16 to 20, you had not dealt with Goodman but with others at News International.
  • (18) In the case of Edmondson's ex-colleague Clive Goodman, the paper's former royal editor, some of those scoops involved paying the private detective Glenn Mulcaire to hack into phone messages left on mobile phones belonging to public figures.
  • (19) After MP Helen Goodman wrote in the Huffington Post that she was backing Yvette Cooper for leadership because Cooper was a fellow parent , there was even more debate about whether or not a prospective leader needs to be a mother .
  • (20) When Cyt a is ferrous, Cyt a3(3+)-azide has g = 2.88, 2.19 and 1.64; upon oxidation of Cyt a, the a3(3+)-azide g-values become g = 2.77, 2.18, and 1.74 (Goodman, G. (1984) J Biol.

Hoodman


Definition:

  • (n.) The person blindfolded in the game called hoodman-blind.

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