Word: chairman
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...House Judiciary chairman had summoned the ghosts of Normandy as witnesses to the sanctity of the "rule of law." Ruff's voice trembled as he turned that appeal back on its author. "I have no personal experience with war," he said quietly. "I have only visited Normandy as a tourist. But I do know this: my father was on Omaha Beach 55 years ago, and I know how he would feel if he were here today. He didn't fight, no one fought for one side of this case or the other. He fought, as all those...
What's surprising isn't that Bradley needs a groundswell but that he's not watering his grassroots. "Do you go to the prom with the guy who asks you three times or the one who never calls?" asks Jeff Woodburn, Democratic chairman in New Hampshire, a state where 75% of party officials are expected to commit to the hyperattentive Gore. Bradley says his long silence was not so much about snubs as about soul-searching. And his staff believes his ruminations will help him find ways to inspire voters--people who don't belong to the party machine, regular...
Then there is the question of money. In Bradley's corner are heavyweights like Howard Schultz, the chairman of Starbucks, and Len Riggio, the chairman of Barnes and Noble. Jane Eisner is rumored to be coming aboard, most likely as a proxy for her husband Michael, the Disney czar--a close Bradley friend who must stay neutral because Disney owns a federally regulated broadcast network, ABC. But support for Bradley is still unformed enough that host names won't be printed on the invitations to his March fund raiser in New York City. And with Gore clinching most traditional donors...
...that two U.S. aerospace companies, Hughes Electronics Corp. and Loral Space & Communications, provided China with critical rocket-design information that helped improve its ballistic missiles. The committee concluded that they had. But as the panel dug deeper, "we were quickly led to far more serious problems," says its Republican chairman, Representative Christopher...
...Iacocca, father of the Mustang and the minivan, the impresario who engineered one of the most audacious corporate comebacks in capitalist history, left Detroit with a historic legacy. But no sooner had the Chrysler chairman stepped down in 1992 than the wheels began to fall off. His third marriage disintegrated. His 1995 partnering with Las Vegas financier Kirk Kerkorian in an abortive bid to take over Chrysler ended in a fiasco of lawsuits, not to mention accusations of treachery and avarice by his former colleagues...