Word: figureheaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having ousted Arturo Frondizi, the country's constitutional President, two months ago and replaced him with a figurehead executive, the military last week moved against Argentina's Congress and its political parties. In doing so, almost all pretense of democracy came...
Sellers is fired. His naivete proves negotiable, however. A member of the city council of Paris (Herbert Lorn) sets him up as the figurehead of Topaze Ltd.. a vast and rapidly diversifying holding company, mainly holding contracts with the Paris city council. He is approached by blackmailers and surrounded by swindlers...
...criticism that the Common- has been leaderless since his election Volpe can point out the Code of he established. To the suggestion, he is a figurehead, he can counter his resolution of the two abortive strikes; and to the hint that he is -noting," he can note the increased-efficiency of the Industrial Accident...
Some sort of dean, however, is always necessary, even if he serves mainly as a figurehead for the Faculty. Moreover, there is in any university a vast amount of administrative work which a Faculty dean could conveniently perform...
...growing amount of this work which led President Charles W. Eliot 1853 to talk more and more in his closing years in office of the need for a "robust" dean, rather than a spokesman-figurehead, and since that time, the problem has always been, as it is now, just how much power to give the dean...