Word: acheson
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...until now, Rice has not spearheaded any ambitious new diplomatic initiatives in the manner of the predecessors she admires, such as George Marshall, Dean Acheson and Henry Kissinger. But a Palestinian-Israeli peace could transform her legacy. Rice has told friends in Washington that she sees her latest trip to the region as the beginning of a prolonged, personal effort to achieve a breakthrough...
According to David Acheson, the chief medical officer with the Food and Drug Administration, it is still unclear at this time when or how the spinach was contaminated and when people could safely resume eating fresh spinach...
...Washington could siphon off European nuclear aspirations into the MLF, only so long as it operated under American control,” Yoo wrote. “[Secretary of State Dean] Acheson wanted Britain and France to trade in their horse-and-buggies and use the bus, one driven by Washington...
...Brown, Secretary of Commerce --Eleanor Dean Acheson, Assistant Attorney General --Mary Jo Bane, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services --Federico Pena, Transportation Secretary --Donald K. Stern, U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts --Lawrence H. Thompson, principal deputy commissioner, Social Security Administration --Shirley S. Chater, Social Security commissioner
...CHACE, 72, prominent scholar and author of books on American diplomacy; of a heart attack; in Paris. As the author of nine books and the editor of influential foreign policy journals, he helped shape political opinions and American foreign policy in the cold war era. His best-known work, Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World, was considered a crucial revision of postwar history, correcting the impression that Dean Acheson helped precipitate the cold...