Word: chairman
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...Republicans argued, so can we. But the GOP's march turned into a mob. The screaming, the pounding on doors and the alleged physical assaults on Democrats suddenly made a bemused public queasy. "I'm all for anyone's right to protest," says Miami-Dade Democratic chairman Joe Geller, who had to have a police escort. "These were Brownshirt tactics." It was the Dade vote counters, however, who provoked the Republican machine. Seemingly oblivious to GOP anger over the Florida Supreme Court ruling to allow manual recounts, the canvassing board tried an end run around the court's Sunday deadline...
Furthering its credibility as a viable piece of legislation is the fact that this bill has bipartisan support. It brought together some strange bedfellows in the liberal Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D- Mass) and the conservative former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell, director of the community-centered service organization America's Promise...
...Until Monday afternoon's announcement, Butterworth, who served as Gore's state chairman, was locked in a battle with Republican officials who argued all military ballots should be counted. It was a battle Butterworth couldn't afford to win. And considering his continued involvement with the vice president's campaign, it's probably safe to assume there's already been some relevant discussion within the Gore camp - perhaps Butterworth was dispatched to test the proverbial waters...
...other labor-intensive work. But that's Big Business in its own right, employing more than 50,000 people and expected to provide more than a million jobs by 2008. Indian software exports have grown from $50 million in 1993 to $6.3 billion this year. Ramalinga Raju, billionaire chairman of Satyam Computer Services, says those opportunities could eventually give India 5% of the worldwide opportunities in IT and create up to 50 million jobs in the next two decades...
...workers to America's stock-option business culture. As a result, more than 200 Infosys workers have become U.S.-dollar millionaires. "The IT industry has created more millionaires in the past five years than all of India's industries put together in the past 50 years," says Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, another big software house with headquarters in Bangalore...