Word: chairman
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...eight years, as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Paul Volcker was perhaps the second most powerful man in Washington. There were no doubt times, as he squeezed the money supply and cost people jobs in his battle against double-digit inflation, when he was also one of the most unpopular. Volcker, 61, devoted more than three decades to public service; his first appointment after leaving Government in 1987 was as unpaid chairman of the National Commission on the Public Service, a private group trying to improve the lot of the nation's civil servants. Now, as chairman...
...current crop of U.S. undergraduates, who were just toddlers in the late '60s and early '70s, grew up during a time when the social gains of those years were under attack. "They have been raised in an era when equal opportunity has been questioned," says Albert Camarillo, chairman of a Stanford University committee on minority concerns. "They have heard people ask if we have done too much for minorities." Others blame the Reagan Administration's lax enforcement of civil rights laws for making prejudice socially acceptable. "The Reagan years provided a context that made people feel more comfortable expressing intolerance...
What better way to police a company than to sign up a former top cop? Wall Street's Drexel Burnham Lambert, which agreed last month to settle criminal- fraud charges, plans to hire a new chairman for its holding company. Drexel's choice to succeed Robert Linton: John Shad, the U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Drexel is also recruiting trade consultant Roderick Hills, another former SEC chief, to serve on the firm's board. Neither had formally accepted by week...
...Bush's name." Though she has spent much of her life in Texas, this product of tony Rye, N.Y., can still summon a patrician bearing to cut the uppity down to size. The next President says she is "more direct" than he is. Says campaign manager and Republican Party Chairman Lee Atwater: "She can spot a phony a mile away." Her children have a nickname for her: the Silver...
...quite. Opponents of boosting the 9.1 cents-per-gal. federal tax are gearing up for a fierce lobbying brawl. On one side stand the influential but unorganized advocates of the gas-tax increase, who range from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. They argue that a gas-tax boost -- the proposals span from about 7 cents per gal. to 50 cents -- would be simple to administer and would bring a gusher of new revenues. As fringe benefits, the tax would help the environment and the U.S. trade position...