Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chancellor of Oxford, Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, then welcomed the two men as Oxford graduates in Latin...
Such a deeply unmodern institution must be top of the list for Blair's reforming zeal. But however much one may agree with him, one must surely admit that the Lords provide a venerable spectacle, full of idiosyncratic character. The sight of the Lord Chancellor in all his forbidding finery, slumped on the woolsack adjusting his wig, listening intently to the sound of sweet and reasoned discourse (mixed with the occasional grunt and snore) is civilized, faintly amusing and surprisingly effective in terms of its legislative product...
...years ago, Duke brought in a sales-minded Texan to yank it into the new era. Alvis Swinney, vice chancellor of business development and marketing, works on everything from pricing strategies to focus-group studies of how people choose a hospital. But he's also known for wandering the medical center and advising doctors to upgrade their waiting rooms...
...second floor of the Duke Clinic, Dr. Ralph Snyderman is making rounds. That would be nothing special if he didn't run the place. Snyderman is chancellor of Duke University Medical Center, so for him to be looking in on patients is a bit like Bill Gates debugging code on a Windows program. Still, it's something he does one month every year, usually in June, like most other doctors at Duke. Right now he's checking on the progress of James McAllister, 73, who has a spinal tumor. McAllister is doing well enough to leave a high-cost intensive...
...global scene, the wobbly Boris Yeltsin still sits in the Kremlin in a crumbling Russia, while the enduring German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has been wobbled out of office in the most powerful country in Europe...