Word: chairmanship
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News of Boesky's misdoings echoed as far away as London, where he resigned his chairmanship of an investment trust known as Cambrian & General Securities. London brokers were reportedly told they could still trade with Boesky, but must inform the surveillance division of the London Stock Exchange of any such dealings...
...arms transfers were so secret that some top Administration officials are still hearing significant details for the first time; Donald Regan learned only last week about an Israeli arms shipment to Iran in November 1985 that the U.S. had condoned. Oklahoma Democrat David Boren, who will take over chairmanship of the Senate Intelligence Committee when the next Congress convenes in January, pledges a "careful and thorough study of the NSC" aimed at returning it to its original role as a body that coordinates advice reaching the President. Some Administration officials think that Reagan will undertake a housecleaning...
State Sen. Jack H. Backman (D-Brookline), co-chairman of the Committee on Human Services and Elderly Affairs, filed the complaint against the Marriott earlier this fall, along with West Newton State Rep. A. Joseph DeNucci, who shares the committee chairmanship with...
Reagan could be on a collision course with the new Senate Judiciary Committee. Massachusetts' Ted Kennedy, the man conservatives love to hate, opted to take over leadership of the Labor and Human Resources Committee, so the Judiciary Committee chairmanship will fall to Biden. Under Democratic rule, the panel will inevitably give the President a difficult time on judicial appointments. In the past year, even with a Republican majority, the committee helped defeat the district-court nomination of right-wing Ideologue Jefferson Sessions and waged tough fights against the nominations of Daniel Manion to the Seventh Circuit Appeals Court and William...
Significant changes were enacted at the Foundation last spring, according to Arnold Professor of Science William H. Bossert '59, acting chairman of the Foundation since Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes relinquished his five-year chairmanship last June. "We have a real agenda; we're meeting, and for the first time, we are directing the director," says Bossert, referring to a recently formed steering committee comprised of an equal number of faculty and students...