Layard
Americannoun
noun
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In 2007, the economist Richard Layard was made the UK’s happiness tsar.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2020
In 2005 David Clark, a professor of psychology at Oxford University, and the economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, concluded that providing therapy to people like Oliver made economic sense.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2017
This has been especially true in the UK since the economist Richard Layard, a vigorous CBT evangelist, became Tony Blair’s “happiness czar”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2016
The one Englishman who stood by Rassam was his old friend Layard.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2015
The earliest Assyrian inscriptions were those lately discovered by Mr. Layard in the north-west Palace at Nimroud, being much earlier than anything found at Babylon.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
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