Word: chambers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bern to plot their strategy, members of Parliament (in which women fill only 25 out of 246 seats) grumbled that Uchtenhagen was "too emotional," "unable to stand the strain of high office," "too elegant" and "not enough of a mother figure." When they returned to the lower-house chamber after their informal evening debate, they rejected Uchtenhagen by a vote of 124 to 96, choosing instead a little-known outsider who did not even have the support of his own party...
More executions are also likely now in Texas, where many residents of death row were counting heavily on the proportionality argument. One of them, James Autry, was saved from the death chamber last October when Justice White issued an eleventh-hour stay pending a decision in the Harris case. Autry, however, may not be the next to be executed in Texas because of his other pending appeals. The angry Judge McSpadden has his own candidate for early punishment: Ronald O'Bryan, known derisively as "the candy man" since he murdered his eight-year-old son by poisoning his Halloween...
Barrett Kalellis, Music Director Detroit Contemporary Chamber Ensemble...
When Paul Thayer became Deputy Secretary of Defense a year ago, he brought a hard-nosed businessman's approach to the Pentagon bureaucracy. As chairman of both the LTV Corp., a Dallas-based energy, steel and aerospace conglomerate, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he had complained about wasteful Government spending, including the military's. His new job as No. 2 at the Pentagon, with particular responsibility for weapons procurement, gave Thayer the chance to use his private-sector savvy to pare public-sector...
After Andropov failed to appear at the Central Committee plenum, attention turned to the ensuing two-day session of the Supreme Soviet. As the delegates filed into the vaulted neoclassical chamber of the Great Kremlin Palace, visitors in the gallery kept their eyes fixed on the brightly illuminated podium. Vorotnikov, whose thatch of dark hair sets him apart from his graying and balding comrades, stepped into the second row next to Agricultural Expert Mikhail Gorbachev, 52, and former Leningrad Party Boss Grigori Romanov, 60. Members of the "young guard" in the Kremlin, both have been mentioned as possible successors...