Word: chairmanship
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...land reform, the improvement of health care and social services in rural areas and increased state participation in basic industries. Two years ago, he successfully challenged Turkey's venerable political leader Ismet Inonii (who served as President or Premier throughout most of a quarter-century) for the chairmanship of the mildly leftist Republican People's Party...
When President Bok came into office, he set about to disperse the management of Harvard's financial affairs. And when Walter M. Cabot '55 takes over management of Harvard's portfolio in two weeks, Bennett's domain in the University's financial world will have been reduced to his chairmanship of the University Committee on Resources, hardly equal to his previous stronghold...
...have even begun to affect the tireless Secretary of State. At week's end Kissinger-nicknamed "Henry Hercules" by U.S. newsmen traveling with him-had been out of the country and on the go for 28 days. The Middle East negotiations had forced him to delegate the chairmanship of a Washington meeting of CENTO nations last week to Deputy Secretary Kenneth Rush. Kissinger also had had to postpone Capitol Hill appearances to testify on such matters as the upcoming defense budget, while foreign ministers of other nations who wanted to see him had to either take potluck-as Japan...
...Union, precursor of today's vociferous, left-wing Young Socialists (Jusos). He won a seat in the Bundestag on the Social Democratic ticket in 1953, and 14 years later became the party's parliamentary floor leader. In 1968 he stepped up to the party's vice chairmanship under Brandt...
...Southern Pacific. Later he became a vice president of the railway Express Agency. For the past eleven years, he has guided the Times Mirror into ventures ranging from cable television to the manufacture of flight-training systems. The White House considered Casey for the $65,000-a-year chairmanship of the U.S. Railway Association, a government agency that will administer the recognized Northeast railroads. But American got him for salary, bonuses and stock options worth about $250,000 a year...