Word: governors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foods), and in 1958 became its president. Six years later, when the company was merged into Coca-Cola, Duncan moved to London as head of Coca-Cola's European operations. He became president of the Atlanta-based firm in November 1971, at a time when Jimmy Carter was Governor of Georgia, but quit less than three years later because he wanted to go back to Houston. There he served as board chairman of an investment banking company, Rotan Mosle Financial Corp. until 1977, when he went to Washington. He works long hours at the office but occasionally escapes with...
...months California Governor Jerry Brown has been promising that he would announce his presidential candidacy in the spring or early summer. He was eager to avoid the problems caused by his late start in 1976, when he beat Jimmy Carter in five of six primaries but had no real chance at the nomination...
University of Pittsburgh; Governor Richard Snelling of Vermont; Cabinet Secretaries Blumenthal of Treasury, Kreps of Commerce, Marshall of Labor...
...Saudi Arabia, where ISC won a $106 million contract to design and build a desalination plant, the SEC charges that the company paid Adnam Samman, then vice governor of the state-run Saline Water Conversion Corp., $3.5 million. To pick up a $50 million contract for a sugar processing complex in the Ivory Coast, ISC paid Gilchrist Olympic, son of a for mer President of Togo, more than $1 million and gave him a new Lincoln Continental, the SEC says...
...answer was simple enough. Satirizing the pop politics of California's Governor Jerry Brown, Trudeau had turned his biting pen on a labor lawyer and Brown contributor, Sidney Korshak, describing him with several harsh characterizations, including "known organized crime figure." While Korshak is no stranger to criminal investigators, the newspapers felt, as the Times put it, that the cartoons were "unfair, irresponsible and unsubstantiated." Callers accused the papers of trying to protect Brown. Said the Guv: "I think it is false and libelous, but I'm flattered by the attention...