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He also wrote that Hill " was a left-winger who'd never expressed any religious sentiments whatsoever ... and the only reason why she'd held a job in the Reagan administration was because I'd given it to her.
Mr. Cole served only one term, after which the IAEA was headed by two Swedes for nearly four decades: the scientist Sigvard Eklund held the job from 1961 to 1981, followed by former Swedish Foreign Minister Hans Blix, who served from 1981 to 1997.
While studying law under the mentorship of Oliver Ellsworth, the future U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, Webster held a full-time job teaching in Hartford — a schedule he found grueling, and ultimately impossible to sustain .< p.
Despite some rough times, Evans held the job for eight years, restoring Paramount's reputation for commercial success with The Odd Couple, Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown, and Rosemary's Baby.
The construction produced a tremendous economic boom, as thousands of Paraguayans who had never before held a regular job went to work on the enormous dam.
Until then, Valéry had, briefly, earned his living at the Ministry of War before assuming the relatively flexible post as assistant to the increasingly impaired Lebey, a job he held for some twenty years.
Sometime soon after 1944, she held a brief job at Maxwell Air Force Base, which as federal property did not permit racial segregation.
Rivers was expected to compete for the starting quarterback job, but he held out of training camp in a contract dispute.
He held the post until 1936 / 1937 when he went on to be a similar job in Ceylon.
Six different women have served as the official Lara Croft model for publicity purposes, including model Nell McAndrew, actress Rhona Mitra, and, most recently, gymnast Alison Carroll, who held the job until 2010.
The series follows a British former secret agent who is held prisoner in a mysterious coastal village resort where his captors try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job.
While attending John Marshall High School in Chicago, from where he graduated with honors in 1918, Rickover held a full-time job delivering Western Union telegrams, through which he became acquainted with U. S. Congressman Adolph J. Sabath.
In similar fashion, he lost the chance of an engagement at New York City's famous Cotton Club when he held out for more money ; young Duke Ellington took the job and subsequently catapulted to fame.
It was held in the printing shop in a job case, a drawer about 2 inches high, a yard wide, and about two feet deep, with many small compartments for the various letters and ligatures.
He found it difficult to work a non-sports-related job and never held a job for an extended period of time.
A year later, NBC acquired the rights to the show and chose Peter Marshall as host, a job he held for fifteen years until 1981.
Young and six others held the job until the RUC was incorporated to the new Police Service.
His father, Erving LeMay, was at times an ironworker and general handyman, but he never held a job longer than a few months.
But, constitutionally, any Barbadian adult is eligible for the job, and Prime Ministers have held office after being elected leader but before taking a seat in the Assembly, or after being defeated in their constituencies.
Kitchener then returned to Egypt as British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt ( the job formerly held by Lord Cromer ) and of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ( 1911 – 1914, during the formal reign of Abbas Hilmi II as Khedive ( nominally Ottoman monarch ) of Egypt, Sovereign of Nubia, of the Sudan, of Kordofan and of Darfur ).
Due to lack of money, he left school at the age of 14 and found employment as a clerk, a job which he held for 11 years.
Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, who directed the Veterans Bureau for seven years, was named as the first Administrator of Veterans Affairs, a job he held until 1945.
After Lane's colonists returned to England in 1586 Sir Walter Raleigh, who held the land patent for the proposed English colony of Virginia, tasked White with the job of organizing a new colony in the Chesapeake Bay area, one which would be self-sustaining and which would include women and children.
One job he'd held in Utah, however, was as a movie projectionist and he found employment in that field in California.

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If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.
His burst held for a second on the engine section of the plane.
There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent.
'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.
These began to be apparent in a press conference held during the second illness in order that the consulting specialists might clarify the President's condition for the nation.
Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.
but, he held, instead of continuing as an `` art of reduction '', it must grow, must make a place for the contributions of the Raphaels and Poussins as well as for those of the early cubists and Mondrian.
Their afflictions centered on one maddening difficulty: Miriam held up the divorce proceedings that she herself had asked for.
This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.
Arlen is one of the few ( possibly the only ) composer Mercer has been able to work with so closely, for they held their meetings in Arlen's study.
The attack started on October 2, 1643, and the Gortonists held out for a day and a night.
They even accept the `` double standard '' of sex morality in a double sense, i.e., both sexes agree that standards for men differ from standards for women, and women apply to both sexes a standard different from that held by men.
To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.
much of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent Shriver, the head corpsman.
I know a man who held resentment against a neighbor for more than three decades.
The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.
He thought he saw -- it awakened and, for a moment, interested him -- that Elizabeth held a leash in her hand and that a round fuzzy puppy was on the end of the leash.
If a branch extended out too far, each man held it back for the next, and if they met a low overhang, each warned the other.
The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

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