Into the navy in world war ii. With the start of the war, our nation needed the strength and talent of everyone, and the navy started the Program Women accepted for waives, women accepted for voluntary service or the w. A. V. E. S. She had a degree in business and was one of the first women to take courses at harvard. As the war moved on women took on greater and groater roles to parachute riggers to gunnery instructors. For my navy women were not allowed to serviceallow ed to serve overseas until the end of the war in 1944. When we decided that hawaii was once again safe enough, it was a base of Planning Operations and we would send w. A. V. E. S. To help continue fight the war. Lieutenant winifred wick wasquick was selected with two of her friends to go and set the stage to bring in over 5,000 w. A. V. E. S. To support the war effort. She was pretty excited. Then she told me this remarkable thing happened. And i was astounded at the story because im from colorado and nothing like thi
Will to fund frontline forces as constituents asked me to ask Prime Minister . I think my honorable friend is right. Because we made the pledge in our manifesto that there be no further reductions in Armed Services numbers, and i think thats right. With a visit to present him with the extra commitment we are making throughout this parliament we can now have a strategic defense and security review that looks at options for how to make this country even safer. The way the chancellor of the defense secretary have set it up is to make sure we include in this looking at options for counterterrorism, for intelligence and security as well as defense assets to make sure we do everything we can at this time of heightened security to keep a britain is safe. A combination of changes made to the state pension in 1995 and 2011 will mean that many women born in the 1950s will not have the kind of retirement that they hoped for. Given a senior Civil Servants and the judges and even members of Parliam
Of individuals like the clintons, who worked hard for the middle class throughout their entire lives. [applause] hillarys here today to talk about economic growth. She is here to talk and take your questions regarding our economy. We had this promise here in america. That promise is if we all work hard and we play by the rules we can get ahead. You folks who dont know me, i have run a business here for 40 years. Im in the boat business in dover. I can tell you that they are saying a rising tide floats all boats. I can tell you that the greatest expansion in peacetime since world war ii is during a time that the clintons from arkansas occupy the white house. [applause] and i dont know about you but we are still here in dover we are still members of the working class, middleclass families, and we need an ally. We need an ally in the white house. That will not forget where they came from. I can tell you and you have my word that the clintons never forgot where they came from. Ever. [appla
World. And the evidence is that these patent Innovation Box policies are not very good at that because what theyre targeting is the income generated from the patents rather than the research that leads to them. This is true of lots of r d tax credits. In holland they just designed one which is quite intelligent, i think, because it targets the research that leads to the r d. So the labor hired rather than the income generated from that r d. But i think we should remember that, for example, the act which in 1980 allowed publicly funded research to be patented. If you read that act, its really interesting. They also say we better make sure that the taxpayer doesnt pay twice, right . So just like year, i think the nih spent arounded 39 billion in research, both basic and applied. And the problem is what happens to the prices of these drugs . Do they reflect that input . So its not only and ive been reading a lot about this, but the pricing mechanism itself could be one way to be rewarded
Now that is 10 trillion. So there are not many places you can say i can take 10 trillion out of the spending stream to keep you healthier. Let me follow up on this now speaker gingrich. You are a conservative and as a result may have credibility than i do in some circumstances on the question on the role of government here. Why isnt it enough to count on private industry to do this . Why do we have to have a substantial investment from the federal government . Its a question about American History. [ inaudible ] and i are developing a project on why George Washington matters. And people dont often notice that the Founding Fathers wrote into the constitute a Patent Office because they so deeply believed in the future. They made investments. The First Federal highway was built during washingtons lifetime. They believed in improving things. They talked about them as improvements. Jefferson launched an expedition to the west and there was a Childrens Book on this called from sea to shining