Word: chairmanship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major event on the party leader's schedule for the following day was a meeting of the Supreme Soviet, the Soviet Union's nominal parliament. Gorbachev had been widely expected to use that session to assume the presidency, formally known as the Chairmanship of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. That would have followed the example of his three predecessors, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Chernenko. Instead, Gorbachev rose in Moscow's columned Great Kremlin Palace to declare that his duties demanded such "intensity" that he should concentrate on the party leadership. He then nominated Gromyko, 75, who he described...
When Volcker left the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to accept the chairmanship, he also accepted a 45 percent pay cut. He now earns $67,000 yearly--one-tenth the salary he could command in the private sector, bankers say--and has family has shouldered significant sacrifices...
Apparently, the University and the Faculty handled the situation differently than they did in 1983 when Jorge I. Dominguez, accused of harassment, was stripped of a committee chairmanship but not of his tenure. While the University received praise in February for getting tough with a problem seen as grave for women on campuses nationwide and in Harvard's Government Department specifically, in fact it remains unclear what if any role the University played in Hibbs's resignation. Moreover, it is possible that Harvard was impelled by threats of further action by one of the two women or by MIT itself...
Iacocca's other principal civic work is his chairmanship of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Commission. The renovation of the statue will be finished in 1986. The more ambitious Ellis Island project, which is to include a new museum of immigration, will take until at least 1987 to finish. "Everybody's getting into the act," he gushes. "How about this--we even got $2,000 from the Hell's Angels!" Commission Architect John Burgee says that when the two of them take inspection tours of the enormous Ellis Island entry hall, Iacocca, the immigrants' son, chokes...
...popular Senate witticism: "Don't tax you, don't tax me; tax that fellow behind the tree." Younger Senators learned to fear the wily negotiator, and on the morning after the 1980 election, when Democrats had lost control of the Senate, Robert Dole, Long's successor to the chairmanship, quipped, "Who's going to tell Russell...