Word: chairmanship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patient, hardworking and dedicated staff make great efforts in the cause of peace everyday. Professor Kistiakowsky had great faith in this organization, in the way it brings scientific and political experts together and in its ability to provide a means for scientific experts to educate the public. Under his chairmanship, research and publications provided by the Council increased substantially and a new branch of the organization, the Education Fund, was established...
...from next July to January had no chance of passage. In spite of that retreat, the President showed that he retains plenty of backstage clout. His friend and close Senate ally, Nevada's Paul Laxalt, led a successful drive to remove Oregon Senator Bob Packwood from chairmanship of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Packwood played a major role in helping engineer the reelection of every Republican Senator in November, thereby maintaining the G.O.P.'s eight-vote margin in the Senate, but he had aroused the President's anger by complaining too publicly that Republicans had "written...
Graham, who also represents the 28th Middlesex district in the state legislature, was praised by NOW for her advocacy in child care, welfare rights, affirmative action and tenants' rights, and her chairmanship of the Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus...
Some members of the council particularly aspirants for the government's chairmanship--had expressed concern that the disbursement of funds would become highly controversial if political groups were given money...
Andropov chuckled and quickly reassured her. "No, no, it's a wonderful event of the highest magnitude, Guess who was made chairman of the committee to organize dear departed comrade Brezhnev's funeral? Me, that's who. So bully on Chernenko, I've got the chairmanship of the party locked...