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That was seen as further evidence of the frigid relations between Bendix's Agee and Hennessy. The Allied chief has vowed that Agee "will have no line duties at Allied," even though he is the company's titular president. McDonald's departure will have the intended effect of keeping Agee tied down at Bendix in Michigan, inhibiting him from becoming involved in Allied affairs back East. Hennessy has also promised that he will study, presumably with a critical eye, the "golden parachute" package fashioned by Bendix directors for Agee during the merger battle. Under its terms, Agee...
...answer to the charges against Scientology, Heber Jentzsch, 37, who was elevated to the titular presidency of the church by the new leaders, denies any wrongdoing by the organization. Jentzsch insists that Hubbard is neither dead nor demented. He also says that Hubbard has gone back to his first vocation, writing, and "he deserves a little privacy...
...follows the lead of his predecessors, Andropov may also go after a post in the government. Brezhnev assumed the job of President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1977, thus becoming titular head of state. Both Stalin and Khrushchev held the post of Premier or Chairman of the Council of Ministers...
...president's door. But for all of his determination to avoid excess public exposure. Bok has felt obligated to voice his opinion in recent years on important campus issues, such as race relations through a series of "Open Letters" to the Harvard community and through his periodic terms as titular head of national university lobbying groups...
...last analysis, no congeries of ancillary virtues can salvage a production of the world's most celebrated play if its titular hero, with 40 percent of the lines, does not enlist our sympathy until the final five minutes...