She married Richard Ravitch ( who later served as Lieutenant Governor of New York ) in 1960 and they divorced in 1986.

The MTA's immediate past chairpersons were: Richard Ravitch ( 1979 – 1983 ), Robert Kiley ( 1983 – 1991 ), Peter Stangl ( 1991 – 1995 ), Virgil Conway ( 1995-2001 ), Peter S. Kalikow ( 2001-2007 ), Dale Hemmerdinger ( 2007-2009 ) and Jay Walder ( 2009-2011 ).

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Richard Ravitch ( born July 7, 1933 ) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 75th Lieutenant Governor of New York from 2009 to 2010.

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" Richard Ravitch, the MTA chairman, said that to stop the work was impossible or so costly as to make it impractical subsequent to the construction of the subway portion.

He had previously undermined Vincent by employing Richard Ravitch as the league's labor negotiator at a salary higher than Vincent's.

Owner representative Richard Ravitch officially unveiled the ownership proposal on June 14, 1994.

On December 5, it was announced that Richard Ravitch would step down as negotiator for the owners on December 31, 1994.

On July 8, 2009, prior to the recapture of Senate control by the Democrats, Governor Paterson appointed Richard Ravitch to the position of Lieutenant Governor to resolve the month-long political stalemate in the State Senate.

Richard Stewart is no special case.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

These Articles ( though no longer binding ) have had an influence on the ethos of the Communion, an ethos reinforced by their interpretation and expansion by such influential early theologians as Richard Hooker, Lancelot Andrewes, John Cosin, and others.

Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz first tried, and then Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II attempted, but gave up and Hammerstein told Lerner " Pygmalion had no subplot ".

Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, recalled that when he asked Lu Weidong, a teacher at the party school in Yan ' an, why this is the case, Lu responded that the idea of the party having its own website was " redundant " and that " All the important media is owned by the Party, so we have no need to set up a website.

A common misconception is that Richard Childress Racing " owns the rights " to the No. 3 in NASCAR competition ( fueled by the fact that Kevin Harvick's car has a little No. 3 as an homage to Earnhardt and the usage of the No. 3 on the Camping World Series truck of Ty Dillon ), but in fact no team owns the rights to this or any other number: However, according to established NASCAR procedures, RCR would have priority over other teams if and when the time came to reuse the number.

Augustine did, however, recognise a phenomenon he called jubilation-sounds of exaltation without words ; commentators such as Richard Hogue speculate that the practice of singing in the spirit persisted in Augustine's era, although xenoglossia was no longer extant among Christian:

On 28 March, the ( anti-Treaty ) IRA Executive issued statement stating that Minister of Defence ( Richard Mulcahy ) and the Chief-of-Staff ( Eoin O ' Duffy ) no longer exercised any control over the IRA.

However, there are no further occurrences of the names George, Richard, and Avys in his family which would have been unusual in the seventeenth century.

no: John James Richard Macleod

Richard Nixon's visit to Beijing was made in the hope, but by no means the certainty, that he would see chairman Mao.

" Richard Holmes, in 1998, declared the importance of the poem's Preface while describing the reception of the 1816 volume of poems: " However, no contemporary critic saw the larger possible significance of Coleridge's Preface to ' Kubla Khan ', though it eventually became one of the most celebrated, and disputed, accounts of poetic composition ever written.

The Independent later stated that " Lindsay came across as all style and no substance, a ' limousine liberal ' who knew nothing of the concerns of the same ' Silent Majority ' that was carrying Richard Nixon to the White House at the very same time.

" Film scholar Richard Schickel, while examining his charismatic screen presence and acting ability, argued: " As a movie actor he has no peer in this generation.

no: Richard Wagner

no: Richard Smalley

Some early Robin Hood stories appear to be unique, such as the story wherein Robin gives a knight, generally called Richard at the Lee, money to pay off his mortgage to an abbot, but this may merely indicate that no parallels have survived.

Nevertheless, the adventures are still more local than national in scope: while King Richard's participation in the Crusades is mentioned in passing, Robin takes no stand against Prince John, and plays no part in raising the ransom to free Richard.

William Winstanley, who praised much of Richard Lovelace's works, thought highly of him and compared him to an idol ; " I can compare no Man so like this Colonel Lovelace as Sir Philip Sidney ,” of which it is in an Epitaph made of him ;

no: Richard Henry Lee

no: Richard R. Ernst

Although born in Oxford, Richard could speak no English ; he was an educated man who composed poetry and wrote in Limousin ( lenga d ' òc ) and also in French.

Richard first destroyed and looted the farms and lands surrounding the fortress, leaving its defenders no reinforcements or lines of retreat.

Realising that he had no hope of holding Jerusalem even if he took it, Richard ordered a retreat.

" Richard Seddon had proclaimed the goal as early as 1884: " It is the rich and the poor ; it is the wealthy and the landowners against the middle and labouring classes.

According to Richard Jeffrey, " Before the middle of the seventeenth century, the term ' probable ' ( Latin probabilis ) meant approvable, and was applied in that sense, univocally, to opinion and to action.

Historian Richard Altick writes that " To judge from the number of references to it in the private letters and memoirs of the 1840s ... Punch had become a household word within a year or two of its founding, beginning in the middle class and soon reaching the pinnacle of society, royalty itself ".

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" Richard Seddon had proclaimed the goal as early as 1884: " It is the rich and the poor ; it is the wealthy and the landowners against the middle and labouring classes.

Between 1890 and 1910, a third wave of composers including Dvořák, Mahler, Richard Strauss, Puccini, and Sibelius built on the work of middle Romantic composers to create even more complex – and often much longer – musical works.

Recent successful films include the working class comedies Brassed Off ( 1996 ) and The Full Monty ( 1997 ), the more middle class Richard Curtis-scripted films Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ) and Notting Hill ( 1999 ) the pop-culture referencing Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy ( so far Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz ), and a movie based on a real life event The Boat That Rocked ( 2009 ).

Mullins ' family called him by his middle name, Wayne, which he went by until college when his friends called him Richard.

Elliot Garfield ( Richard Dreyfuss ), a neurotic but sweet aspiring actor from Chicago, shows up shortly thereafter in the middle of the night, expecting to live there, as he now rents the apartment.

In the middle of the 20th century, Richard Feynman realized that the perturbative expansion could be given a dramatic and beautiful graphical representation in terms of what are now called Feynman diagrams.

During Toscanini's middle years, however, such now widely accepted composers as Richard Strauss and Claude Debussy, whose music the conductor held in very high regard, were considered to be radical and modern.

Most of the building stock was constructed as a designed village in the middle of the 19th century by Sir Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, in almost rectangular form.

By the middle of the 14th century the Lord Chancellor began to be seen as the leader of the Court of Chancery, rather than as a representative of the King ; writs and bills were addressed directly to him, and in around 1345 under Richard II it became practice to consider the Chancery separate from the curia.

Day-Lewis returned to the stage in 1989 to work with Richard Eyre, in Hamlet at the National Theatre, but collapsed in the middle of a scene where the ghost of Hamlet's father first appears to his son.

Jones suffered from a stiff leg and walked with a limp ; fellow musicians gave him the nickname " Richard My Knee Jones " as a pun on his middle name.

As an old woman, Iris recalls the events and relationships of her childhood, youth and middle age, including her unhappy marriage to Toronto businessman Richard Griffen.

It is part of the Lagunitas School District, unique in that it operates three alternative elementary programs and a traditional middle school program on two connected campuses with one superintendent ( Larry Enos ), one principal ( Christian Francis ), and one school board ( Denise Santa Cruz-Bohmani, Stephanie O ' Brien, Steve Rebscher, Christopher Sabec, and Richard Sloan ).

It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV ( two plays ), and Henry V. Henry IV, Part 1 depicts a span of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildon against the Douglas late in 1402 and ends with the defeat of the rebels at Shrewsbury in the middle of 1403.

Eve Gill ( Jane Wyman ), an aspiring actress studying at RADA, is interrupted in the middle of a rehearsal by her friend, actor Jonathan Cooper ( Richard Todd ).

Nor was he the only one ; in 1795 Richard Warner wrote a potboiler entitled Netley Abbey, a Gothic Story in two volumes, featuring skullduggery at the abbey during the middle ages.

Hoon reportedly began using his middle name, Shannon, to avoid confusion with his father, who was also named Richard.

Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville ( 10 September 1823 – 26 March 1889 ), the only son of Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, was in serious financial difficulties by the middle of the 19th century.

Born James Alfred Orage in Dacre, near Harrogate, in the West Riding of Yorkshire into a nonconformist religious family, he was generally known as Dickie and he dropped the name James altogether and adopted the middle name Richard.

On the British motoring show Top Gear, Richard Hammond drove a 1963 Kadett A through the middle of Botswana during a 2007 challenge.