Word: helming
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...Renato Ruggiero today was appointed head of the new World Trade Organization. The U.S. initially opposed Ruggiero's appointment, contending he was a European protectionist. But the Clinton Administration this week struck a deal with other WTO members to let Ruggiero have just one four-year term at the helm with former South Korean trade minister Kim Chul-su as his deputy. Ruggiero had his own explanation for being a one-termer: "I'm 65 and I feel very well, but I don't want to end my days working very hard...
...addition, this is the third year that coach Maureen Travers has been at the helm, lending a certain stability and confidence to the program. Practices have been intense but productive, and team members say that they will...
DIED. BERNARD CORNFELD, 67, financier; from pneumonia; in London. Cornfeld rose from the driver's seat of a Brooklyn cab to the helm of a financial empire. But his high-living, high-stakes universe evaporated in 1970 after his mutual-fund company went public, leading to a collapse that cost Cornfeld and his investors millions and landed the smooth-talking fallen star in prison. He was ultimately acquitted of embezzlement...
Howard Hunter, the president, "prophet, seer and revelator" of the Mormon Church, died this morning in Salt Lake City after just 9 months at the helm of the 9-million member faith. He was 87 and suffered from prostate cancer. The one-time corporate lawyer served the shortest presidential term in the 165-year history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. TIME senior writer Richard N. Ostling notes that Hunter "had power in his church exceeding that of the pope, but made barely a dent as a church leader." (Mormons believe their leader, unlike the pontiff...
...players lauded the coaching staff, especially coach Bill Doyle, who has had three national titles in this three years at the helm...