Word: chairman
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Except for a four-year break, Peter MacDonald Sr. has ruled the 200,000-member Navajo nation as its strong-willed chairman ever since 1970. Presiding over a Southwest desert reservation larger in area than Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts combined, he has lived well on his $55,000 annual salary plus, according to witnesses, some expensive perks. Yet last week MacDonald lost his grip on his honored post. Tainted by allegations that he had accepted bribes from contractors seeking business with the tribe, he declared that he would take an extended leave, but then changed his mind and attempted...
...Harvard, where he studied and taught, is redolent in his manner as he discusses economic abstractions. Yet he harbors what he calls primitive views of patriotism. He was comfortable, as a Bush campaign adviser, arguing for continued emphasis on the Pledge of Allegiance issue when even his friend, Campaign Chairman James Baker, wanted to change the subject...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Secretary Richardson soon drew him into his personal circle. As Richardson toured the Nixon and Ford Cabinets -- serving as head of Defense, Justice and Commerce -- Darman followed. Richardson, a problem-solving progressive who wore his Republicanism lightly, even served Jimmy Carter as vice chairman of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea. With that political lineage and a wife describing herself as "alas, a good old-fashioned liberal," Darman was hardly a natural fit in the conservative Reagan White House...
...home ownership. After years of battling the Reagan Administration's wrecking-ball approach, which leveled housing funds from 7.5% of the federal budget in the late 1970s to 1.5% last year, many legislators now want the Government to aid first-time buyers actively. One bill, sponsored by Henry Gonzalez, chairman of the House Banking Committee, would create a $6 billion fund to make low-interest mortgage loans to first- timers who earn up to 115% of the median income in their communities...
Brown's journey has led him to an altogether worldly destination: a furniture warehouse in Sacramento, where he has a temporary office as the newly elected chairman of California's state Democratic Party. As Governor, Brown often feuded with party regulars and was never known for the organizational skills that are badly needed by California Democrats, who last delivered the state for the party's presidential nominee in 1964. Yet just the sort of politicos he once disdained backed his campaign for the chairmanship, swayed by his promise to build a no-nonsense organization that could provide Democratic office seekers...