Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leading physicists, the chairman of the mammoth Boston-based Gillette Corporation, the head of a large group of Boston mutual funds, a star Cleveland tax attorney, and the president of a huge shipping company who doubles as one of the $350 million Harvard Campaign's three national co-chairmen...
...Stone himself if is more humble about his bigtime panhandling skills, which he has honed since being chosen as a co Class Agent for the Harvard College Fund in 1953, and which he now exercises as one of the Harvard Campaign's three national co-chairmen. "I guess I was just the sucker who got tapped," Stone says. "I'm the only one with a really strong business background, and that's why I'm interested in the money matters like the Campaign and the endowment...
...group is now "looking to see if there are any other alternatives to not talking," Daley said. He added that in yesterday's opening plenary session, remarks were made by the chairmen of each side, but he refused to discuss the details of the speeches...
...vote in a congressional district to qualify for delegates. Jackson points out that to date he has won 17% of the popular vote, yet holds only 7% of the delegates. Responding to Jackson's claim that he was "robbed" of 220 delegates, Manatt promised to ask state chairmen to consider allocating Jackson unpledged convention delegates. Meanwhile, Jackson came up with another idea that could touch off debate: automatic voter registration at the age of 18. Such a system would demand a philosophical change in the U.S., where voting is considered a privilege, not a requirement...
...China's leadership remains an immovable object of orthodoxy. The staunchest Maoist loyalists are within the 4.2 million-strong People's Liberation Army, whose upper ranks have become a stagnant gerontocracy. The youngest of the nine men on the Central Military Commission is 70; three of its four vice chairmen, like Chairman Deng, have passed their 80th birthday. Even the People's Daily has been moved to complain that "some of our leading cadres are like document-reading machines, speaking rather than acting and just sitting there unless they get a push from above...