Word: chancellor
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...prepared statement, NYU Chancellor and President-elect L. Jay Oliva said, "The appointment of Alice Huang as Dean for Science brings a scientist of outstanding strength and stature to a leadership role in the sciences at NYU for the coming decade...
Margaret Thatcher never minced words during her 11 1/2 years as British Prime Minister, and will not do so now. But she exaggerates the changes her country's Conservative government has set in train since an intraparty revolt four months ago replaced her with her Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Major...
...budget presented last week by Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont -- inevitably dubbed Stormin' Norman by the press -- calls for an immediate cut in the poll tax of $250 a person, an average of 36%. That is to be offset by an increase in the value-added tax, a kind of super sales tax, from 15% to 17.5%. Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine later announced that the poll tax would be scrapped entirely by 1993, but talked only vaguely about what might replace...
...rescue plan. As a follower of supply-side economics, he shuns any new taxes, will not go to Wall Street to do more borrowing and wants to give businesses some tax relief. "I can't imagine a sharper break with the past," Weld said last week. Except for the chancellor of the board of regents, who resigned in protest, most of Weld's constituents so far seem to believe they deserve Weld's bitter medicine now that Massachusetts has an unemployment rate of 8.6% and has swallowed three huge tax increases since...
...have arrived when these two nations must begin to find a constructive international role commensurate with their economic strength. Some prominent Japanese agree that the country's pacifism has become in practice isolationism. Kohl echoed that view with respect to his country last week. Addressing the Bundestag, the Chancellor said, "There can be no safe little corner in world politics for us Germans. We have to face up to our responsibility, whether we like...