Word: chancellor
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...University had asked William T. Allen, the chancellor of the Delaware's equity court, for a restraining order delaying Marriot's annual meeting on July 23, when the company is likely to approve the split...
...names, mostly coded, of western Germans who once served as spies for East Germany's secret police, the infamous Stasi. Experts say some are likely to be prominent figures in politics and industry. "There will be some big scandals. Some names are well known," says a Bundestag source. Chancellor Helmut Kohl, in power since well before unification, may have something to worry about: 19 years ago, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt was forced to resign after just one spy was discovered in his chancellery...
Fired two weeks ago, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont promised to go quietly. But the ousted official couldn't resist a 20-minute harangue in the House of Commons. As a stony-faced Prime Minister John Major listened, Lamont charged that without more clearly defined goals, his party's government "will not survive and will not deserve to survive." The last time an ex-Exchequer Chancellor (Geoffrey Howe) attacked the boss (Margaret Thatcher), the government did indeed fall...
Jerry Falwell sits in the chancellor's office of Liberty University, his school in Lynchburg, Virginia, and describes his abhorrence of RU 486. The host of the Old Time Gospel Hour on 200 television stations, he still has the contacts and much of the clout that he enjoyed in his Moral Majority days. He compares unprotesting acceptance of the new drug to the German churches' inaction during the Holocaust: "We can't make that mistake again," he says. "Morally we will have no recourse except to do whatever is available...
British Prime Minister John Major fired his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, and shuffled other ministers in an effort to recapture public confidence. Lamont was blamed for driving down the value of the pound...