Word: membered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about time. After 339 years of being an all-male board, the Harvard Corporation finally has a woman member. Judith Richards Hope, a prominent Republican and Washington attorney, was appointed last week to replace Andrew Heiskell, who announced his intention to retire three years...
Councillor David E. Sullivan, the only council member to oppose the extension, said he could not support the contract because of the buyout clause, but added that he approved of Healy's performance...
...addition, several members of CCLN's steering committee are active opponents of the garage, including co-chair R. Phillip Dowds and treasurer Daniel E. Geer, Jr. McManus and Geer will probably take over as co-chairs in the near future, said steering commitee member Peter D. Kinder...
John Tower, Secretary of Defense-designate, is a full-fledged member of the Capitol Hill old boys' network. Before retiring from Congress after the 1986 election, he put in four terms as a Republican Senator from Texas. For six years he served as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, the panel now judging his fitness to run the Pentagon. His old friends in the upper chamber are eager to confirm his appointment, either because of personal regard or because it would further a kind of quasi alliance between Congress and the Bush Administration that both need for their own purposes...
...greater shock was to come. The Republican Party, a tiny far-right grouping founded in 1983 and headed by a former SS officer, emerged with a surprising 7.5% of the vote. The showing not only secured the Republicans their first eleven seats in the 138-member city legislature but guaranteed the party two seats in the Bundestag, to be occupied after the national elections in 1990. As for the cocky Christian Democrats, they trailed their own 1985 performance by almost 9 percentage points, winding up with just 55 seats, the same number captured by their perennial rival, the Social Democratic...