Word: chancellor
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After the funeral, Vice President George Bush, French President Francois Mitterrand, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and a long line of other distinguished visitors quietly filed past Chernenko's grave. Then they passed through the Kremlin gates to meet the new man in charge...
...junior senator was by John Duff, chancellor of the Mass Board of Regents, student leaders from area colleges, and other state official...
...Parliament passed the Infants Custody Bill, which declared that children under seven were allowed to reside with their mother but only of the Lord Chancellor agreed to it and if the mother was of "good character" Lorster points out that it took until 1973 for the child custody laws to be completely reformed And finaly in 1882 the Married Woman's Property Not gave married women the same property rights as single women...
King James I called on any citizen who knew of bribery of his judges to make a public accusation. One of the first to complain, John Wrenham, charged in 1617 that the learned Lord Chancellor Bacon had unfairly ruled against him. When Wrenham was unable to prove bribery, however, both his ears were cut off, after which he was "perpetually imprisoned." Four years later, Bacon finally confessed to a whole array of bribes, and Parliament fined him (pounds)40,000 and sentenced him to the Tower. The King majestically commuted the penalties...
...value of the dollar. Among the leading advocates of this theory are Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and Harvard Professor Martin Feldstein, who was chairman of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers until he resigned last summer. Their views are widely shared in Western Europe. Wrote former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in the newspaper Die Zeit last week: "The astounding recovery of (Reagan's) economy over the past 24 months and his view of the economic future rest largely on other people's money...