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When Volcker left the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to accept the chairmanship, he also accepted a 45 percent pay cut. He now earns $67,000 yearly--one-tenth the salary he could command in the private sector, bankers say--and has family has shouldered significant sacrifices...
Iacocca's other principal civic work is his chairmanship of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Commission. The renovation of the statue will be finished in 1986. The more ambitious Ellis Island project, which is to include a new museum of immigration, will take until at least 1987 to finish. "Everybody's getting into the act," he gushes. "How about this--we even got $2,000 from the Hell's Angels!" Commission Architect John Burgee says that when the two of them take inspection tours of the enormous Ellis Island entry hall, Iacocca, the immigrants' son, chokes...
...popular Senate witticism: "Don't tax you, don't tax me; tax that fellow behind the tree." Younger Senators learned to fear the wily negotiator, and on the morning after the 1980 election, when Democrats had lost control of the Senate, Robert Dole, Long's successor to the chairmanship, quipped, "Who's going to tell Russell...
...addition to teaching, Porter will this summer take over the chairmanship of the Senior Managers in Government program, a three-week seminar for high-ranking public officials, according to Kennedy School Executive Dean Hale Champion...
...action differed from the way the University and the Faculty dealt with a similar complaints of harassment two years ago involving Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez. According to published reports, Dominguez was stripped of a prestigious committee chairmanship, but not of his tenure. Since that time, Harvard has refused to confirm or deny the incident or punishment, saying only that a serious case of harassment took place...