Word: chairmanship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still stalking LSC, however. By early next year he will have replaced the corporation's eleven board members with people who question much of the LSC's current thinking. Ronald Zumbrun of Sacramento is expected to be announced shortly as Reagan's choice for the LSC chairmanship. "The poor will have their own James Watt," groans CRLA'S Al Meyerhoff. Zumbrun frequently tangled with CRLA over funding cuts when he was a deputy director of Reagan's department of social welfare and more recently in his position as head of the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation...
...minorities at Harvard, along the lines of centers at several other prestigious universities such as Yale, Princeton and Stanford. Bok acknowledged that the proposal merited investigation, and he formed a student-faculty committee to investigate it. He gave the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, the chairmanship of the committee...
Though Warner's management permitted Bushnell to open an initial Pizza Time Theater restaurant in San Jose in 1977, the parent company never saw much future in the idea. In 1978 Bushnell resigned his chairmanship, put up $500,000 to buy back the Pizza Time concept from his old employer, and went into business for himself...
ROBERT MOSES dominated New York City like no man before him. Though never elected to any public office. Moses converted his many appointed posts--most important among them the chairmanship of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority--into control of every major construction project in the city from the late 1920's to the early 1970s. He built highways, bridges, parks, housing, and a vast array of public edifices among them Lincoln Center, the United Nations. Shea Stadium, and Co-op City...
...brand of pragmatism and his plan to question the legacy and reduce the influence of Mao Tse-tung, the party's Great Helmsman, who died in 1976. Although his power is still not supreme, Deng was able to shunt aside Mao's hand-picked successor to the chairmanship, Hua Guofeng, 61, who was accused of creating a "personality cult" around himself, committing "leftist errors" and opposing the policies advocated by Deng. Relegated to the positions of lowest-ranking Vice Chairman and junior membership in the Politburo, Hua was also obliged to resign as head of the Central Committee...