Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Board recently made headlines by forcing the resignation of 65-year-old Maryland Chancellor John S. Toll in an effort to bring younger, more energetic administrators to the school. But White said in a statement that the board's tough tactics had encroached on his authority...
...think the normal planning process broke down," said Toll, the former chancellor. "I think the situation has now been corrected...
...bureaucrat who serves at the pleasure of a dozen bosses, Delors can be short-tempered and occasionally imperious. During one memorable speech last year, he accused a British representative on the 16-member European Commission of being "a lackey of the Labour Party" and referred indelicately to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl as "fat-assed." His blithe contention that eventually E.C. officials would preside over 80% of the national economic and social decision making now conducted by individual countries infuriated Britain's Margaret Thatcher. So does his next major goal: replacing each nation's currency with a unified European monetary...
...This is a humanitarian decision and an act of European solidarity. I am deeply thankful to the Hungarian government," Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany said in Bonn...
...will to power seemed almost demoniac in its ferocity, that was partly because he encountered such feeble opposition. Starting in Germany, if the democratic forces had united against him, he would never have come to power. If even just the conservatives had opposed him, he could not have become Chancellor. And if the French had resisted his reoccupation of the Rhineland, his regime would have collapsed...