Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point, the Harvard-educated sheik grew so frustrated with the demands of Iran, Libya and Algeria, which were calling for a base price of at least $25 "to $26 per bbl., that he threatened to walk out of the conference. That led OPEC Chairman Mani Said Utaiba, of the United Arab Emirates, to convene a rump meeting in his private upstairs suite. It was during that gathering, at which Utaiba served dates from his home country and Arab spiced tea, that the compromise was struck...
...more drastic action than other states. After officials discovered that the odd-even purchase arrangement was not working because 90% of the stations shut down on weekends, they invoked a four-year-old law that gave them emergency powers in case of a severe energy shortage. Said Richard Maullin, chairman of the California energy commission: "It was definitely time to legislate by decree." Stations with odd-numbered pump registrations were required to stay open on Saturday, those with even numbers on Sundays. Police handed out citations to station owners who failed to comply, and a few were given...
Though GM Chairman Thomas A. Murphy maintains that the automakers will sell 11.5 million cars this year, other industry officials say they would not be surprised by sales of 10.5 million...
...annual conference since the protective body's founding in 1946. Disdained in past years as a private whalers' club that supports the estimated $650 million industry by setting excessively liberal whale-kill quotas (this year's total was 20,102), the IWC, under its youthful new chairman, Thordur Asgeirsson, 37, could do much this year to change its image...
...morning last week, they found a cryptic memo from Editor Edward Kosner summoning them to a 10:30 meeting at Top of the Week, the conference room on the 40th floor of the magazine's Manhattan headquarters. When they arrived, they were surprised to find Katharine Graham, chairman of the parent Washington Post Co. Recounted one writer: "People began to murmur, 'God, we're closing down ... We've been bought...