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vocabulary can, in some circumstances, carry very strong connotations of power. And, of course, selected words become ‘politically incorrect’, with objections raised if they are used. If using them cannot be avoided, reference may well be made euphemistically – for example, a journalist writing ‘the “n” word’ to evade quoting the reprehensible use of the old racial segregationist word ‘nigger’. All the same, members of the Black Power movement of the 1960s deliberately used the word ‘black’, to reclaim it from segregationist usage and proclaim that ‘black is beautiful
Nicholas Carlile, an Island Ecologist based in Australia and rediscoverer of living specimens of the Lord Howe Island phasmid ( Dryococelus australis ), a giant stick insect around fifteen centimetres long. Rats arriving on the damaged and beached supply ship SS Makambo in 1918 were thought to have wiped out the Lord Howe stick insect in the 1920s, though climbing expeditions to a nearby rock, Ball’s Pyramid, since the 1960s found a few dead specimens. ‘We regularly received requests to climb Ball’s Pyramid to look for the insect, but the climbing teams rarely if ever
in the late 1990s when the Modernising Government White Paper (Cabinet Office, 1999 : 7) committed to forward-looking policymaking which would ‘involve and meet the needs of all different groups in society’. Whilst use of evidence-based policymaking in a formal sense varies internationally, countries including America (Bogenschneider and Corbett, 2010 ), where drives for increased research-based policy have been apparent since the 1960s, as well as a number of countries in developing areas of the world (Sutcliffe and Court, 2006 ) have also turned their