Word: clement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Still, he finds "all the talk about the profit side" a little boring. All he really wants to do, he says, is sing. When his friend Frank Clement, the Governor of Tennessee, recently tried to persuade him to run as his successor in the statehouse, Arnold turned him down. "They tell me I would win," he explains, "but then I wouldn't be able to sing. And if that happened, then I just wouldn't be me any more...
...remarkable account of Germany's rise from defeated enemy to much courted ally, Adenauer's tone is dry and professorial, often lacking in the details of the humanism that his C.D.U. programs espouse philosophically. But there is venom aplenty-directed mainly at the British Labor government of Clement Attlee (which Adenauer accuses of unfairly aiding his German Socialist opposition in the immediate postwar years) and at Socialist Party Leader Schumacher. Adenauer scarcely mentions his successor as Chancellor, Ludwig Erhard, who during these years as Economic Affairs Minister was laying the groundwork for the "economic miracle," and he gives...
...sailing team showed its depth by qualifiying five boats for the semi-finals of the New England Single-Handed Championships. No other school qualified more than three sailors for the event. Andy Kittler, John Clement, and Jim Harper breezed to firsts in the qualifying heats...
...earns a taxable net income of $15,000 in New York City would have to pay $417.50 to the city in addition to $835 to the state and $3,010 to the Federal Government-even if he lives in New Jersey or Connecticut. - Chicago School Board Member James W. Clement proposed a 1% city income tax to provide $115 million, mostly for education. (Ten cities now have income taxes, including Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Cincinnati...
...Rufus Clement, 65, Atlanta University. A Negro historian with a Ph.D. from Northwestern who has headed his school for 29 years, Clement takes pride in his skill in "race and human relations, first, and foreign relations, particularly African, second." He is an adviser to the State Department on African affairs, a member of the National Commission on Accrediting, board member of the American Association for the United Nations. He flies so much that he has Pan Am's schedules almost memorized...