Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months had sought permission from his old friend Carter to return home to Georgia. Bell's wife gleefully told a friend in the Senate: "It's the best news I've had since coming to Washington." Griffin's proposed successor is his own choice: Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti...
...self-portrait was refreshingly candid. Said Benjamin Civiletti, after his selection as the next U.S. Attorney General: "I am a kind of determined, strong professional, not much interested in personal charisma or attention. I could be described as businesslike or dull or serious. I have no flamboyance at all and little humor...
...Education, HEW; Nicholas Carbone, deputy mayor of Hartford; Sol Chaikin, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers.' Union; John Filer, board chairman of the Aetna Life and Casualty Co.; Eli Ginzberg, chairman of the National Commission for Employment Policy; Carl Holman, president of the National Urban Coalition; Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P.; Vernon Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League; David Lizarraga, co-chairman of the National Black-Hispanic Democratic coalition; John Lyons, president of the iron workers union; David Mahoney, board chairman of Norton Simoni Inc.; Labor Secretary Ray Marshall; Lloyd McBride, president...
...Daniel Fuenzalida, chief economic adviser to General Gustavo Leigh, a member of the ruling junta. Fuenzalida and others formed a company called Chilco, which the SEC said was to be paid .5% of the value of any contracts that ISC secured in the country. One member of Chilco was Benjamin Rencoret, who was and is a Chilean honorary consul in Houston. Despite payments of $30,000 to Chilco, the company failed to get the contract it was seeking: construction of a $375 million liquefied natural gas plant...
...effort to catch up, Mayor Kevin White has hired Benjamin Thompson, the architect who renovated Quincy Market, to devise a plan for the theater district. So far, at least four major buildings -offices and part of the Tufts-New England Medical Center-are scheduled to rise near the combat zone. Boston once pulled off a revolution; it may yet find the means to manage a renaissance...