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chief and executive
Woodruff had supported him all the way, both as a chief executive and as a man.
The new Constitution provided for a much stronger national government with a chief executive ( the president ), courts, and taxing powers.
Andrew Penman, chief executive of The Cancer Council New South Wales, called for further research on the matter.
* Senior Principal / Partner: Typically an owner or majority shareholder of the firm ; may be the founder ; titles may include president, chief executive officer, or managing principal / partner.
In November 1972, Kolton was named as the exchange's first chief executive officer and its first salaried top executive.
Druyan is the chief executive officer and the co-founder of the " Cosmos Studios ".
The highest political authority in the country is the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the chief executive officer for the international civilian presence in the country.
Former COO Scott Arnold took the title of interim president and chief executive officer until November 8, 2005, when it was announced that Tod Nielsen would take over as CEO effective November 9, 2005.
Herald-Traveler Corp. operated for years under temporary authority from the Federal Communications Commission stemming from controversy over luncheon meetings the newspaper's chief executive had with an FCC commissioner during the original licensing process ( Some Boston broadcast historians accuse the Boston Globe of being covertly behind the proceeding.
* selecting, appointing, supporting and reviewing the performance of the chief executive ;
In these countries, the CEO ( chief executive or managing director ) presides over the executive board and the chairman presides over the supervisory board, and these two roles will always be held by different people.
The chief executive could serve two consecutive five-year terms and then pick a successor.
The so-called Parliamentary Republic was not a true parliamentary system, in which the chief executive is elected by the legislature.
In nearly all cases, the monarch is still the nominal chief executive, but is bound by constitutional convention to act on the advice of the Cabinet.
Only a few monarchies ( most notably Japan and Sweden ) have amended their constitutions so that the monarch is no longer even the nominal chief executive.
Prior to the creation of the group management board in 2006, HSBC's chairman essentially held the duties of a chief executive at an equivalent institution, while HSBC's chief executive served as the deputy.
The Trustees elect a President to serve as the chief executive officer of the Institute and administer the affairs on the Institute on behalf of the board, a Provost who serves as the chief academic officer of the Institute below the President, and ten other vice presidential and other senior positions.
Krulak's staff assignments included: operations officer, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines ( 1977 – 1978 ); chief of the Combat Arms Monitor Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ( 1978 – 1979 ); executive assistant to the Director of Personnel Management, Headquarters Marine Corps ( 1979 – 1981 ); Plans Office, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii ( 1982 – 1983 ); executive officer, 3rd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; assistant chief of staff, maritime pre-positioning ships, 1st MEB ; assistant chief of staff for operations, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; and the military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

chief and Oxford
One of the chief commanders at both Crecy and Poitiers was John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, mentioned above.
Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.
* One of Hamlet ’ s chief opponents at court was Laertes, the son of Polonius, while Oxford continually sought the help of Robert Cecil, the son of Lord Burghley, to seek the queen's favour, with no results.
At Oxford and Cambridge, English universities which are formally headed by chancellors, most colleges are headed by a master or a principal as the chief academic.
The Oxford Canal's chief engineer, Samuel Simcock, designed
The new company appointed Robert Stephenson chief engineer, and he chose the route through Coventry, largely to avoid possible flooding from the River Thames at Oxford.
This condemnation parallels that issued to the chief ministers of the Tory government that had made peace with France, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, who was impeached and imprisoned in the Tower of London from 1715 to 1717 ; and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, who, after his political fall, received vague threats of capital punishment and fled to France in 1715, where he remained until 1723.
The dean's chief published works are a Life of St Anselm ( 1870 ), the lives of Spenser ( 1879 ) and Bacon ( 1884 ) in Macmillan's " Men of Letters " series, an Essay on Dante ( 1878 ), The Oxford Movement ( 1891 ), together with many other volumes of essays and sermons.
He ordinarily lived at Oxford, where he was the chief adviser and assistant of Henry Aldrich, under whom Christ Church was a stronghold of Toryism.
The lower house of Convocation voted him thanks for his services ; the University of Oxford created him a rector of divinity ; and in 1704, soon after the accession of Queen Anne, he was promoted to the deanery of Carlisle Cathedral ( although the Tories still had the chief weight in the government ).
Halifax retired to Rufford again in January 1681, but was present at the Oxford parliament, and in May returned suddenly to public life and held for a year the chief control of affairs.
He never finished his medical course, because his great-uncle and mentor, Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna ( who was then regarded as Fiji's paramount chief ), seeking to groom him for future leadership of the nation, arranged for him to study history at Wadham College, Oxford University in the United Kingdom.
In 1682, he was appointed chief of the East India Company's affairs at Surat and Bombay, while at the same time his namesake, stated to be unrelated by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Sir Josiah Child, was governor of the company at home.
After education at Berkhamsted School and Merton College, Oxford, Greene came to prominence as a journalist in 1934 when he became the chief correspondent in Berlin for The Daily Telegraph newspaper.
During Anne's reign, the chief object of his policy was to frustrate the measures which were planned by Lord Oxford to strengthen the Episcopalian Jacobites, especially a bill for extending the privileges of the Episcopalians and the bill for replacing in the hands of the old patrons the right of patronage, which by the Revolution Settlement had been vested in the elders and the Protestant heritors.
Marangu has always been an important centre of the Lutheran church and Marangu Mamba was the home of Bishop Stefano Reuben Moshi ( 1906 – 76 ), Lutheran Bishop of Tanzania, and chief informant for Otto Raum's study on his family: " Chaga Childhood " Oxford University Press 1940 ( reprinted 1996 ).
At Oxford he associated with Robert Sanderson, and particularly Robert Boyle, who made Oxford his chief residence from 1654 to 1668.
Though so occupied in politics, he seems to have been a man with wider interests, a considerable portion of his wealth was spent on charitable objects ; he founded almshouses at Ingatestone, and designed scholarships for All Souls College, Oxford, but his chief benefactions were to Exeter College, Oxford, and entitle him to be considered its second founder.
His chief benefactions were to Exeter College, Oxford ( whose rowing eights bear his name to this day ), and entitle him to be considered its founder ; he rewrote its statutes so its membership was increased.
He became chief engineer for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and was engineer of the East Lincolnshire Railway, the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway and the Severn Valley Railway.
Prior to joining Reading University, Professor Marshall was formerly the chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council, an official fellow of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford, professor of sociology at the University of Bath, and taught at the University of Essex and the London School of Economics.
In 1844 he was ordained deacon and priest in the Church of England, and held curacies at Aston Rowant and St Thomas's, Oxford ; but being naturally attracted to the Episcopal Church of his native land, then recovering from long depression, he removed in 1846 to Stonehaven, the chief town of Kincardineshire.

chief and University
It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later ( from 1880 ) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia.
The Chancellor is voted upon by the Board of Trustees, and is the " chief educational and administrative officer " of the City University.
The University was then the chief seat of Scholastic learning, but already coming under the influence of Renaissance humanism.
He was the founding dean of the University of Miami School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences in 1964, and held several government positions, including deputy assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, and chief scientist for the Department of Transportation.
* 1988 – Jaffna University Helidrop: Commandos of Indian Peace Keeping Force raided the Jaffna University campus to capture the LTTE chief and walked into a trap.
In 1937, he was appointed chief executive of what later became the University of Nice.
: Argent on a Cross Azure and open book proper, clasps Gold, between four Stars of eight points Or, on a chief Gules a Lion passant Guardant also Or, together with this motto " Sidere mens eadem mutato " to be borne and used forever herafter by the said University of Sydney on their Common Seal, Shields or otherwise according to the Law of Arms.
The Newcastle University arms are blazoned Azure, a Cross of St Cuthbert Argent, and on a chief of the last a lion passant guardant Gules.
Professor Samuel Lee, working with chief Hongi Hika and Hongi's junior relative Waikato at Cambridge University, established a definitive orthography based on Northern usage in 1820.
In 1964 Jacob Sheskin, Biology Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Physician at the Hadassah University Hospital, where he is chief of staff and manager of the Hansen Leper Hospital, Jerusalem, administered thalidomide to a patient.
In 1859, Albert Niemann of the University of Göttingen became the first person to isolate the chief alkaloid of coca, which he named " cocaine ".
The chief architect of Poplog, responsible for many innovations related to making an incrementally compiled system portable, and providing support for a collection of languages was John Gibson, at Sussex University, though the earliest work was done by Steve Hardy.
Travis describes the ENIAC project at the University of Pennsylvania ( 1941 – 46 ), the technical and leadership abilities of chief engineer Eckert, the working relations between John Mauchly and Eckert, the disputes over patent rights, and their resignation from the university.
In 2011, The New York Times ranked Fudan University as the 34th universities in the world according to a survey of chief executives and chairmen of leading companies, and the second in Asia.
The chief architect of VME / B was Brian Warboys, who subsequently became professor of software engineering at the University of Manchester.
University officers include Dr. James L. Gaudino, president ; Dr. Marilyn Levine, provost ; George Clark, chief financial officer ; Sherer Holter, Chief of Staff.
From 1883 to 1888 he was chief librarian at Columbia University, from 1888 to 1906 director of the New York State Library, and from 1888 to 1900 secretary and executive officer of the University of the State of New York.
The chief officers of the University were the Vice-Chancellor, the Registrar, the Bursar and the Librarian.
See also Terry Jones's homepage, California Polytechnic State University .</ ref > The Chumash advanced sewn-plank canoe design, which is used throughout the Polynesian Islands but is unknown in North America except by those two tribes, is cited as the chief evidence for contact.
Current members of the board of directors of Monsanto are: David L. Chicoine, president of South Dakota State University ; Hugh Grant, the president and CEO of Monsanto ; Arthur H. Harper, managing partner of GenNx360 Capital Partners ; Gwendolyn King, president of Podium Prose, a speakers bureau ; Laura K. Ipsen, senior VP and general manager of Connected Energy Networks at Cisco Systems, Inc., C. Steven McMillan, former chairman and CEO of the Sara Lee Corporation ; William U. Parfet, chief executive officer of MPI Research Inc .; Janice L. Fields, president of McDonald's USA ; George H. Poste, chief executive of Health Technology Networks ; and Jon R. Moeller, chief financial officer of The Procter & Gamble Company.

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