Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been successfully investing in the stock market for the past 20 years without relying on the Federal Reserve Board and its various chairmen, including Alan Greenspan [BUSINESS, Nov. 10]. I don't have an M.B.A., but here's my counsel...
While on the Radcliffe board, she envisioned an affiliation of board chairs from small, independent liberal arts colleges. DeFriez achieved this goal when she co-founded and chaired the Conference of Board Chairmen...
...Shelton has not shied away from tactics that implicitly criticize Pentagon routine. While many Chairmen have been tankers, pilots and ship drivers--and were eager to embrace whatever new weapon came along--Shelton, as commander of the famed 82nd Airborne in 1993, raised eyebrows by scrapping the division's fleet of high-powered AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships in favor of more reliable but modest OH-58 Kiowas. Shelton's career went into high gear in Haiti in 1994, when he cut short the U.S. invasion, turned back the bombers and transformed himself from warrior to a diplomat, ousting Raoul...
...even criticized himself. "I did something wrong," he muses now. "As a chairman of the board I was a symbol, not just an individual. So I should have stepped down before I protested. Even in the U.S.," he adds, "I don't think you would like your chairmen of the board to do that...
KINSHASA, Zaire: The government of the newly named Democratic Republic of Congo is moving quickly to consolidate power two days after Laurent Kabila's ragtag rebel soldiers marched victoriously into the capital, reports TIME's Peter Graff from Kinshasa. "Kabila's representatives met Monday with the chairmen of the major state-run enterprises and the heads of the national bank," says Graff, "and they did it very publicly." The moves have helped to stabilize the national currency, which soared from 170,000 zaire to the dollar on Friday to 50,000 to the dollar Monday. Kabila, who has assumed...