Word: chief
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...early supporter of Khrushchev's, Kosygin continued his rise in the Soviet hierarchy as a Deputy Premier after Khrushchev was made party chief in 1953. Following the Kremlin conspiracy to oust Khrushchev in 1964, Kosygin and Brezhnev divided up the two posts that their predecessor had held simultaneously. Brezhnev took over the much more powerful job of Party Secretary, while Kosygin became Premier, which put him in control of the day-to-day management of the Soviet government. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger viewed Kosygin as a pragmatist, with "a glacial exterior" who was "orthodox if not rigid...
...decline, but agreed that a contraction is now all but unavoidable. Yet they believed that the 1981 slump will not be as sharp as this year's, when the GNP in the second quarter declined at an annual rate of 9.6%. Republican Conservative Monetarist Beryl Sprinkel, chief economist for Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank, predicted that the economy will show about 3.9% real growth on an annual basis for the last three months of 1980 and then increase at a 4% yearly rate during the first quarter of 1981. Then he sees business slipping back into...
...their country three months ago and its continued detention of Iranian Oil Minister Mohammad Javad Tondguyan as a prisoner of war. When the conference opened, they disrupted the proceedings by propping a 2-ft. by 3-ft. photo of Tondguyan in the chair reserved for Iran's chief delegate. To protect its Oil Minister, the Iraqi delegation packed 17 guns at the conference. Some Iraqi aides wore guns even inside the meeting room in defiance of the security regulations of their Indonesian hosts...
...Nixon Administration in the early 1970s. Found by a jury to have conspired to violate citizens' Fourth Amendment rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, W. Mark Felt, 67, who had been the FBI's deputy director, and Edward S. Miller, 52, once its chief of domestic intelligence, could have been given ten years and $10,000 fines. But Bryant chose not to jail them. Instead he fined Felt $5,000 and Miller...
...addition, he has been making appearances in bookstores to sign copies of a coffee-table retrospective, The Art of Maurice Sendak, by Selma G. Lanes. In the midst of this hectic schedule he paused for breath in his bachelor retreat in rural Connecticut and reminisced with New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler...