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Most of the nation's 31 Republican governors will meet in New Orleans this week to chew over the election results, install Oklahoma?s Frank Keating as their new leader and discuss a possible coup. The target is Jim Nicholson, the GOP party chairman who many Republicans say shares the blame for making a hash of the recent elections and for being, looking and sounding too conservative in general. Several of the governors, including Michigan's John Engler, have said in public that it?s time for Nicholson to pack his bags. Following the model used by the Democrats...
...press release, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek Richard M. Smith complimented Whitaker on his devotion to the magazine...
...their mental power and endurance--whether they are learning math, the grammar of English or other languages, how to read music, run a four-cylinder engine, program a computer or balance a ledger. By strengthening our students' thinking abilities today, we can enrich their lives tomorrow. WILLIAM E. BROCK, Chairman Intellectual Development Systems, Inc. Annapolis...
...Project, an alliance of industry, labor and farm groups. And last week Washington's World Resources Institute brought together executives from GM, British Petroleum and Monsanto to pledge that their companies would contribute less to the greenhouse effect. "There is a rising tide of environmental awareness," says incoming Ford chairman William Clay Ford Jr. "Smart companies will get ahead of the wave. Those that don't are headed for a wipeout...
Interactive Flight Technologies, a financially troubled company with a new board and chairman (former Secretary of State Alexander Haig was once a director), has said it wants out of the in-flight-entertainment business, a desire repeated at the company's annual meeting a day after Swissair's announcement. Company executives say the airlines want cheaper, simpler systems, and the market has been depressed because U.S. regulations bar gambling on flights that take off or land in the U.S. That means no passengers on Swissair 111, which left from New York City's Kennedy airport, were swiping their credit cards...