Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lyndon Johnson's nomination; later she served him as the nation's first black female ambassador-to Luxembourg. By 1970 she was a partner in a blue-chip Washington law firm. Along the way, Harris also broke onto the billion-dollar boards of IBM, Scott Paper and Chase Manhattan...
...United Nations General Assembly . . . Chairman of Credentials Committee for 1972 Democratic National Convention; criticized by some at the time as being too much of an "Old Guard" Democrat . . . Civil rights champion since student days . . . Speaks up for blacks, women and other minority groups as director of IBM, Scott Paper, Chase Manhattan Bank . . . Member of prestigious Washington law firm with strong middle-of-the-road Democratic ties . . . Protestant . .. Married to William Beasley Harris, an attorney with the Federal Maritime Commission...
Despite the star-studded lineups of the Trilateral Commission and the Brookings Institution, both remain largely unknown to the general public. The more obscure of the two is the Trilateral Commission, which Chase Manhattan Chairman David Rockefeller prodded into existence in July 1973. Rockefeller thought there ought to be a meeting place for citizens from the leading non-Communist industrial areas-Japan, the United States and Western Europe-to debate and perhaps work out solutions to their common political, economic and security problems...
...chase it with punch for polemical Ewart Guinier...
With that putt began as fine a stern chase as could be imagined. It divides itself in my mind into two distinct periods: the first a brave scramble, the second a triumphant march. He had made a mistake at the Alps, at the Hilbre, at the Rushes, yet his net loss from those four errors was just one shot, so indomitable were his recoveries...