Now, at 66, the former Tory party whip is taking on a role that offers new, but no less difficult, challenges as he attempts to guard the BBC's independence and at the same time act in the best interest of licence fee payers.
Why There Will Never Be Another Drug Like Lipitor And a look at the story of the best-selling drug of all time, now drawing to a close.
But maybe he is the best ever at his given trade, the best college coach of all time.
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Any practiced attendee of the Academy Awards will tell you that the best time to glide across the red carpet is at the end of arrivals time, when the setting sun casts a favorable light on those pesky wrinkles and unsightly bulges.
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He said the talking points reflected the best assessment of the intelligence community at the time of what occurred in Benghazi, and said there has been an effort since to politicize the tragedy.
On the world stage, purists can continue to marvel at the skills of American duo Bernard Hopkins - one of the best middleweights of all time - and lightweight Floyd Mayweather.
During cooking seminars hosted in the gleaming stainless steel kitchen at Traube Tonbach, he stresses the importance of getting the highest quality product at the best time, taking influence from nature and eating what is local and fresh.
To Richard Eubank, who also served at the height of the Vietnam War, I want to wish you the best of luck as you take the helm of this great organization at a critically important time.
The last and best reason to negotiate a divorce settlement at the time of separation is its timeliness.
"The speaker has said from the start that we have made serious mistakes in the way this handled, although we believed at the time we were acting according to the best wishes of the victims, " said Silver spokesman Michael Whyland.
In time of war, our country cannot afford to have one of its two major political parties at best AWOL on the major security issues of our time and, at worst, seriously wrongheaded about them.
But, since the idea is to promote marriage as the best foundation for the family, at a time when almost 40% of first-born children are born out of wedlock, these rights for heterosexual partnerships do not include equality with married couples for tax purposes.
By 1980, her millions of fans, however, had made Rand one of the best-selling authors of all time and flocked to hear her speak at college campuses across the nation.
The facts do not lie: Kirsten is the best South African batsman of all time - at least in terms of the number of Test hundreds and total runs scored.
Lincoln understood that in order to provide legitimate solutions to the problems facing the country at that time, he wanted to work with the best and brightest minds of the day even if they disagreed with him.
Is anyone else troubled by the fact that this childish bit of overused hyperbole is the best one of our elite group of 100 can muster at a time of national trouble?
Echoing the main theme of the campaign, he argued Scotland could have the "best of both worlds" - a strong, devolved parliament in Edinburgh which was at the same time part of a strong United Kingdom.
Amtech pointed out in a research note that a test Google search of each of the top 10 best-selling prescription drugs at that time turned up a slew of ads for Canadian online drug peddlers like CanadaDrugPharmacy.com and CanadaDrugCenter.com.
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He had numerous No. 1 hits -- the best known being "Thriller, " the best-selling album of all time, at an estimated 50 million copies worldwide.
More than 105, 000 people have paid to see the exhibition at the Kelvingrove Museum - making it the best-selling visual arts exhibition of all time.
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Finally, if you shop around for a better deal, you could actually cover your endowment shortfall and save money at the same time - giving you the best of both worlds.
When I was around that age my best friend at the time and I dreamed of building a theatre on a piece of land in California, and we were going to call it the Trigger Street theatre, which now happens to be the name of my production company.
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If Microsoft is content to let us do everything with a single point of contact at a time, or at best two points (in the case of pinch and rotate) what good is 10-finger pressure-sensitive multitouch when it comes to navigating an OS or actually getting things done?
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"There's no apparent motive to the best of our knowledge at this time to provoke these attacks, " he said.
For business students it is imperative that they make the best use of their time at the university, to capitalize on this moment, but not just to stay within the walls of the business school and double major in finance and marketing.
Working with the FDA, we have made commitments to improve these areas and, at the appropriate time, we decided to initiate a market action as a precautionary measure in the best interest of consumers who trust and rely on our products.
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It would deprive the Scottish Labour Party of its best-regarded (by the voters) public face at a time when it should be building up for the elections to the Scottish parliament.
Paddington Bear has been voted Britain's best animated character of all time at the ninth British Animation Awards.
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