Word: chancellor
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...explosion in the number of college students since World War II has created numerous difficulties for private higher education, the first president and current chancellor of Brandeis University said in a lecture last night...
...these demands were not met, read the statement received by Bonn, "Hanns-Martin Schleyer will be shot. There will be no more extensions." In the ultimatum to the Paris daily, the terrorists warned West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt: "Any attempt on your part to delay or deceive us will mean immediate execution of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and all the passengers and crew of the plane...
...financial disabilities of old age were first recognized as a serious social problem by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who initiated the social security pension system in 1884. He arbitrarily set the age for receiving benefits at 65, and his model has been followed ever since in much of the Western world. The same age for receiving benefits?and therefore being a candidate for forced retirement?was enshrined in the U.S. Social Security system when it was established in 1935, and was copied in almost all the private pension plans that mushroomed after World War II. Yet in Bismarck...
...British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey possesses a splendid-some think notorious-gift for Panglossian rhetoric in the face of economic distress. Last week he held forth with customary ebullience on Britain's economic prospects. But this time his optimism was well grounded. In addresses to Common Market finance ministers in Brussels, the Chancellor detailed evidence of solid performance...
Paul L. Puryear, provost and vice-chancellor of academic affairs at UMass-Amherst, said the proposal is "very premature." Although there is currently no recombinant DNA research at UMass, there are two proposals for such research at the university...