Word: parliamentarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main task of the new administration, to be headed by veteran New Democracy parliamentarian Tzannis Tzannetakis, will be the investigation and punishment of senior officials involved in a web of financial scandals, including the alleged embezzlement of some $210 million from the Bank of Crete. Once that is achieved, new elections will be scheduled...
...realize the "democratization" he has proclaimed within the totalitarian institutions of the one-party Soviet state. Unfortunately, it is not in the power of even so perspicacious a historian as Medvedev to resolve that fateful dilemma. Perhaps that is why he has become, at 63, a fledgling parliamentarian...
...there was ever a campus version of a "career politician," Evan J. Mandery '89 would probably fit the bill better than anyone else. In his four years on the Undergraduate Council, Mandery chaired two committees, served as parliamentarian, chair and, this year, as the body's unofficial elder statesman...
...KSSG parliamentarian Leroy Divinity said he hoped Putnam would encourage more programs like the school's loan-forgiveness program, which provides financial incentives for students to go into public service...
...almost single-handedly developed the Council's machinery, as parliamentarian, vice-chairman, chairman, and member of numerous student and student-faculty committees. Among other achievements, he produced definitive reports on freedom of speech at Harvard, after students pegged Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 with tomatoes; the potential for an honor code at Harvard; and the controversial disciplinary Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. He has also played a major role in establishing the Endowment for Divestiture, an alternative to the Class Gift Fund designed to pressure Harvard to divest its South Africa holdings...