Word: chairmen
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...toughest opponents of North, after all, have included a Jewish lawyer (Senate counsel Arthur L. Liman '54), a Jewish Senator (Senate Committee Vice-chairmen Warren Rudman (R.-N.H.), a Japanese Senator (Inouye), and a Black Congressman (Louis Stokes (D.-Ohio)). By contrast, North has presented himself as the true-blue American defending democracy, freedom, God, and country. He is a populist hero, the little guy taking on the government. But as historians have long since pointed out, populism has two faces: one which celebrates the common man, another which reflects racism, anti-semitism, and xenophobia. Both faces of populism have...
...depend on the testimony of North and Rear Admiral John Poindexter, the former National Security Adviser. Poindexter is scheduled to appear on July 7 and North later in the month. The committees' investigators have been grilling Poindexter in secret sessions without any of the legislators present, an arrangement the chairmen apparently agreed to in order to prevent leaks. But there was an understanding that if Poindexter produced any bombshells, such as having briefed Reagan on the diversion, the chairmen would be promptly notified. So far, Poindexter's inquisitors have been silent -- an auspicious signal for the President...
...rapid increase in the number and depth of the committees over the last decade has produced staffing problems because most overseers do not have the competence to judge the science departments. "If you have lawyers being chairmen of science committees, sometimes they don't know what they are talking about," says Board President Samuel C. Butler '51, who favors an increase in the number of hard scientists and doctors on the Board...
...over day-to-day control to Glass, 51, and Shewmaker, 49, one of whom is likely to become the next chief executive. The titular position of chairman may go to the founder's eldest son, S. Robson Walton, 42, who is at present one of the company's vice chairmen. But Mr. Sam shows no signs of giving up his trademark store visits. For some time to come, Wal-Mart employees will have to be on the lookout for the gray-haired gentleman who loves to exclaim, "Give...
...conditions for further discussion, but in no case could this group of other nations impose its collective will on any of the directly involved parties. From 1973 until Sadat's dramatic visit to Jerusalem in 1977, it was presumed that the U.S. and the Soviet Union would be co-chairmen of an international peace conference. Now, as one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, the Soviet Union would play a similar but lesser role...