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...small taxpayer groups have sprung up around the country to contest the way local officials spend public money, and a national organization called Contribuables Associés has started ranking members of parliament by their tax-and-spend policy records. "The change of mentality is very recent," says Bernard Zimmern, a businessman who is helping to fund the national campaign. Retired IBM engineer Michel Vergnaud founded one of the local associations in Lyons four years ago "out of curiosity," he says - and quickly...
...father, Bernard Goldhirsh, made his fortune after founding Inc. magazine, which he sold for an estimated $200 million...
...Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop professor of history and chair of the Historical Studies subcommittee, was influential in defining the five areas of study the Faculty eventually approved, and in designing the Historical Studies requirement...
Alter also remembers courses with now-retired history pundits Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn and David Donald. He also remembers a course at the Kennedy School with the Charles Warren Professor of History Ernest May and Richard Neustadt called “The Uses of History,” which he says has “proven very helpful to me for my column, since one of the things I like to do is provide history as context for current affairs...
...motive. In P.N.G., politicians' futures depend on how much funding they can get for their local areas, but Treasurer Bart Philemon has kept a tight rein on public spending. "Some of the M.P.s were expecting a lot more money for things they had promised the electorate," says former politician Bernard Narokobi. "Others were pushing for the economic portfolios. And they are frustrated because they can't get them...