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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only G.O.P. candidate with statewide experience. Said she: "This is an opportunity to tell that what we have in Nebraska are open-minded people." The women will vie for the job now held by Bob Kerrey, 42, former companion of Actress Debra Winger; he is resigning after one term to pursue a future "different from being an elected politician...
...will succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board when his term expires next year? A new front runner may have emerged last week when the President nominated Manuel Johnson, 37, a Fed member for only three months, to be vice chairman of the board, replacing Preston Martin, who resigned in April. Reagan also named a new board member: Bank of America Economist H. Robert Heller...
Known for his pragmatism rather than ideology as chief of staff during Reagan's first term, Baker commended the President for getting things done by compromise. But he also praised Reagan's fierce conservative ideology which made it difficult for Baker to logroll policy through Congress in the President's first administration...
Robert L. Franklin, lecturer on Social Studies, said that his tenure as North House senior tutor "will be a learning experience--especially with the [renovations and constructions." Franklin, who last November received his Harvard doctorate in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies, will take on his new position next term...
...Consumers Power nuclear plant near South Haven, Mich., showed that 14 of the tourists had absorbed almost 1,500 millirems of radiation, or 50 times the amount in a chest X ray. Robert English, corporate health physicist for Consumers Power, said that the Americans faced minimal long-term health hazards. However, some people living in the immediate vicinity of the reactor may have risked death or, at the very least, severe radiation burns...