Word: chancellorship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's how things tend to be when Richard Green, the first black to hold the New York chancellorship, steps forward. Green, 51, has ruled for the past eight years over the 55-school Minneapolis system, where 40% of the 40,000 students are minority youngsters and where the quality of education had sagged badly through the '70s. After first putting in 16 months of planning, Green moved so firmly that in Minneapolis, B.C. also means "before the change...
Wilson, who is currently a candidate for chancellorship of the New York City Public School System, said he will interview for the position this week...
...five-year terms as minister-president of his native North Rhine-Westphalia, faces an uphill battle for the chancellorship. Polls taken before last week's congress gave Kohl's conservative-liberal coalition 51%, a ten-point lead over the S.P.D. The Chancellor's main source of strength is a solid economic record that, despite high unemployment, boasts zero inflation, a 3.5% growth rate and a $25 billion trade surplus during the first six months of the year. In personal appeal, Rau, who married only four years ago, has two young children and whose wife is expecting a third, might have...
...protege, Bernhard Worms, was trounced in the race for North Rhine-Westphalia state leader by Incumbent Johannes Rau. With his moderate views and good-natured disposition, Rau may eventually displace the lackluster Hans-Jochen Vogel as the Social Democrats' parliamentary leader and mount a formidable challenge for the chancellorship...
...Austrians waited to see what face-saving explanation Kreisky might offer to save his job, the Chancellor surprised them by instead keeping his promise. "Yes, this is definitely a defeat," he said. "I take the consequences and resign." He urged the Socialists to turn over both the chancellorship and the leadership of the party to Education Minister Fred Sinowatz, 54. Said Kreisky: "I am much too old for the haggling needed in a coalition." And, some associates concluded, much too proud...