Word: chancellor
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Chances that the London summit will resolve these disputes are slim. The previous economic summits have concentrated on building a spirit of cooperation and have rarely achieved specific agreements on complicated financial matters. Looking back on the eight economic summits he attended as West German Chancellor, Kohl's predecessor, Helmut Schmidt, once reflected that the meetings were valuable not so much for what they accomplished as for what they avoided. He had in mind primarily resistance to curbs on free trade. Still, political harmony and economic discord are not an enduring combination-a point which the London gathering...
RESIGNED. Anthony J. Alvarado, 41, innovative chancellor for a year of the New York City school system; four days before an administrative hearing into his fitness; in New York City. Alvarado was suspended in March after a preliminary report accused him of demonstrating "a disturbing disregard for many rules governing professional and personal conduct," including accepting $63,000 in loans, many from subordinates who then earned large amounts of overtime pay. He still faces three criminal investigations into his tangled financial affairs...
...American missiles are deployed on West German soil the situation will change." When the late Soviet leader Yuri Andropov directed that warning at West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl last year, he left no doubt about what he meant. Ties between East and West Germany would inevitably deteriorate once the two countries had to view each other "through a thick palisade of missiles...
...with whom all the peers fall in love. She has a petulant soprano voice that warbles beautifully while she reveals her character's spoiled naivetes. She spins a web that entraps not only the nobles and the half-mortal, Strephen (Jay Kelly), but also her aged guardian, the Lord Chancellor (Dennis Crowley...
Crowley turns in the evening's most stupendous performance, his voice clear and vibrant for his quickly-paced solos about why he became a lord chancellor and the insomnia from which he suffers. He acts superbly with each character, especially in a trio with his two compatriots, the heads of both political parties. Crowley's Loed Chancellor tries to prevent Phyllis' marriage to Strephen, who unbeknown to him is his son by Iolanthe, the fairy who was banished for marrying the lord because he is a mortal...