Word: chairmanship
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Through the power by which he names all committees, and by ex officio chairmanship of the Committee on Educational Policy (CEP), the Dean can usually guide debate and legislation. He knows the public views of every Faculty member and obviously would not appoint his critics to form a majority on any committee. Thus all committees of importance on legislation are packed with people who agree in general with the Dean's idea on education. And he can decide whether, and when, to bring an issue before a committee or the Faculty...
Wilson's brilliant associate, onetime Rochester Lawyer Sol M. Linowitz, who two years ago left the Xerox executive committee chairmanship to become U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of the American States, made sure that the techniques could not be copied for some time. A thicket of more than 500 patents surrounds the basic xerography process. Meanwhile, the company is making machines that turn out copies-and therefore revenues -at ever faster rates. The 914 model turns out 420 pages per hour. Model 2400, launched 21 years ago, makes 2,400 pages of copy per hour. After a faltering start...
...Bigger. Wood's coup, and others to come, earned him Sears's presidency in 1928, its chairmanship in 1939, and promised Sears unchallenged retailing superiority for decades ahead. In the years between Wood's arrival and his retirement next week from the company's board at 88 (he gave up the chairmanship in 1954), Sears has grown from a rural mail-order house doing a $200 million-a-year business to a vast corporation with sales of more than $500 million a month. Its 50-state organization includes 809 full-line stores, 1,731 smaller catalogue...
Indeed, as it celebrated its first anniversary last week, it seemed odd that until a year ago, the U.S. had no single agency to police the safety of its largest single industry-transportation. Under the chairmanship of Joseph O'Connell Jr., 62, a tax lawyer who has been in and out of government since 1933, the safety board has not only imposed some order on the safety work of Washington's raft of regulatory agencies; it has also confounded the skeptics who thought it unequal to its herculean task...
...case of Ward 9, the overwhelming victory of the student slate could encourage people to run against Hickey. The Committee makeup has worried Hickey enough to make him abortively attempt to win the chairmanship for himself, even though he finished behind all 12 opponents...