Word: staff
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Teng was the most notable of the discredited pragmatists whom Chou brought back to power in the early 1970s. Teng quickly acquired the jobs of Vice Premier, Politburo member, vice chairman of the party and chief of staff of the army. As Chou's strength ebbed, he became Peking's principal international spokesman. Most experts thought he would succeed Chou as Premier. Hua and the radicals-apparently with the blessing of the ailing Helmsman -blocked his way. A few months after Chou's death he was dismissed from his jobs and vilified in the press. When...
...Eden served his country as Foreign Secretary three times. He won an outpouring of public respect by resigning that post when he disagreed with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's prewar policies. He gained further acclaim under Winston Churchill-serving, in effect, as Britain's wartime chief of staff, Churchill's alter ego and, as Oxford Historian Michael Howard puts it, "the loyal adjutant who skillfully executed his master's grand strategy." Seldom was a man so groomed for his country's highest political office. Yet when it came Eden's turn to serve...
...managing editors would be left in control of their periodicals, Murdoch tried to hire a new editor to oversee Voice Managing Editor Marianne Partridge. His choice: Michael Kramer, a New York alumnus and editor and publisher of the journalism review More. Partridge vehemently resisted, and so did the staff, and Kramer backed off. For the future, the highly individualistic staffers took a more concrete step: 120 out of 150 joined up with the paper's first union, Local 65 of the Distributive Workers of America...
...California, New West Managing Editor Dick Adler quit in favor of Executive Editor Frank Lalli, but he characterized his staffs mood as "stunned equanimity." The staff of New West, New York's younger twin, had struck briefly the previous week in support of the New Yorkers, but they have decided to stay-in part because they want their magazine to survive and in part because Murdoch's presence is much less immediate. "It's expected that Murdoch will be something of an absentee landlord," says one writer...
...life." Many captains are trained, for tuition costs starting at $3,000 a week, at one of three supertanker schools in Holland and France. At Meurs' school, the Dutch Institute for Navigational Training, nearly 100 students a year go through a seamanship course run by a 17-member staff that is headed by, of all professionals, a psychologist. "Stress is becoming a very important factor as the world of shipping becomes more complicated and increases the need for men who can make cool, fast decisions," says Meurs. At the school, part of the training involves running scale-model tankers...