On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.

Since Laos is of no more purely military value to Moscow itself than it is to Washington, this approach might be expected to head off Mr. Khrushchev for the moment.

Along with Rhodes and Green, Tyrone Willingham became the head coach at Stanford, then later Notre Dame and Washington.

Thousands of dollars were raised to purchase ads in the The Washington Post and Sunday The New York Times, featuring an image of the head of a statue of Apollo and reading: " Costas Poisoned Olympic Spirit, Public Protests NBC.

Afterwards, the British continued to head towards New York, and Washington moved his army outside of New York.

In 1896, Booker T. Washington, the first principal and president of the Tuskegee Institute, invited Carver to head its Agriculture Department.

George Washington, the first President of the United States, set the precedent for an executive head of state in republican systems of government.

He was the son of Lamont Waltman Marvin, an advertising executive and the head of the New York and New England Apple Institute, and his wife Courtenay Washington ( née Davidge ), a fashion writer and beauty consultant.

After his release in September 1974, he and his family resettled in Caracas, but then Letelier decided to head for Washington D. C., at the proposal of American writer Saul Landau.

In Dan Henning, a former Chargers quarterback, Washington Redskins assistant, and Atlanta Falcons head coach, was named the eighth head coach in Chargers history.

From 1978 through 1983, the Chargers wore their white jerseys at home, coinciding with the hiring of coach Don Coryell – when Joe Gibbs, a Coryell assistant in 1979 – 80, became head coach of the Washington Redskins in 1981, he did the same, and white at home became a Redskins staple through 2007 – but Coryell switched the Chargers to their blue jerseys at home starting in 1984.

Washington head coach Joe Gibbs entered the game seeking his third Super Bowl victory with the team, but with his third starting Super Bowl quarterback, Mark Rypien.

Alternatively, accounts by Carminantonio Iannaccone ( as a researched and written about by The Washington Post ) establish the creation of tiramisu by him on 24 December 1969 in Via Sottotreviso while he was head chef at Treviso, near Venice.

Enmity came to a head at the club's last game in Washington.

James J. Reeb, a minister at All Souls Church, Unitarian, in Washington, D. C. and a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was clubbed in Selma, Alabama on March 8, 1965, and died two days later of massive head trauma.

When the American Revolutionary War began, George Washington was selected to head the colonial army.

After his Redskins failed to make the playoffs in 1977 despite posting a 9 – 5 record, Allen was fired and was replaced by new head coach Jack Pardee, a star linebacker under Allen in Los Angeles and Washington.

In 1863, enlisting the support of Alexander Dallas Bache and Charles Henry Davis, a professional astronomer recently recalled from the Navy to Washington to head the Bureau of Navigation, Louis Agassiz and Benjamin Peirce planned the steps whereby the National Academy of Sciences was to be established.

As KGB head, Andropov was ruthless against dissent, and author David Remnick, who covered the Soviet Union for the Washington Post in the 1980s, called Andropov " profoundly corrupt, a beast ".

Digital began working on a new CPU using RISC design principles in 1986 and Cutler, who was then working in DEC's DECWest facility in Bellevue, Washington, was selected to head Prism, a project to develop the company ’ s RISC machine.

* Richard J. Smith ( born 1948 ), American dentist, anthropologist, head of graduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis

During these trips, the President is not formally treated as a head of state, does not meet U. S. government officials in their official capacities, and does not visit Washington, D. C.

A concerted push for the legislation had developed, drawing on leading economists, leading think tanks in Washington, a civil society coalition advocating the reform ( patterned on a coalition earlier developed for the truck-and-rail-reform efforts ), the head of the regulatory agency, Senate leadership, the Carter administration, and even some in the airline industry.

For a moment he thought of going into Crosson's office to explain that he had to leave, but there was now such a pain in his chest, such a pounding in his head, that he decided to let it go.

Troubled, he continued along the corridor, poking his head into the next office for a careful look around.

The clerk wagged his head toward the captain's office.

He stuck his head in Mrs. Kirby's little rental office.

Loyalty requires affection also to the office of the Sovereign, attachment to royalty, attachment to the law and to the constitution of the realm, and he who would, by force or by fraud, endeavour to prostrate that law and constitution, though he may retain his affection for its head, can boast but an imperfect and spurious species of loyalty ( R v O ' Connell ( 1844 ) 7 ILR 261 ).

The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not actually the head of a monastery.

Its head office is in Sydney.

The airline CCM Airlines has its head office on the grounds of Ajaccio – Campo dell ' Oro Airport ( Napoleon Bonaparte Airport ).

Lord Palmerston's government collapsed in 1858 amid public fallout over the Orsini affair and Derby took office at the head of a purely ' Conservative ' administration.

Apart from the head office building and the R & D building of Capcom Co., Ltd., both located in Chūō-ku, Osaka, the Japanese parent company also has a branch office in the Shinjuku Mitsui Building in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo.

The short-lived Bolognese Republic, proclaimed in 1796 as a French client republic in the Central Italian city of Bologna, had a government consisting of nine consuls and its head of state was the Presidente del Magistrato, i. e., chief magistrate, a presiding office held for four months by one of the consuls.

The Tribune was an office first created to protect the right of the common man in Roman politics and served as the head of the Plebeian Council.

Royal Air Maroc has its head office at the Casablanca-Anfa Airport.

In 2004, it announced that it was moving its head office from Casablanca to a location in Province of Nouaceur, close to Mohammed V International Airport.

The agreement to build the head office in Nouaceur was signed in 2009.

While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China ( the highest position in Communist China ), he nonetheless served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1992.

There is no EU-wide register of SEs ( an SE is registered on the national register of the member state in which it has its head office ), but each registration is to be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Emperors were once given precedence over kings in international diplomatic relations ; currently, precedence is decided by the length a head of state is continuously in office.

According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

The crisis came to a head in April when, sitting in his Cinecittà office, he began a letter to Rizzoli confessing he had " lost his film " and had to abandon the project.

One of these, a pavilion for the Paris Gas Company, was Eiffel's first collaboration with Stephen Sauvestre, who was later to become the head of the company's architectural office.

He later opined that the governor-general's role was more than a representative of the sovereign, explaining: " under section 2 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the Queen's representative and exercises certain royal prerogative powers and functions ; under section 61 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the holder of a quite separate and independent office created, not by the Crown, but by the Constitution, and empowered to exercise, in his own right as Governor-General and not as a representative or delegate of the Queen, all the powers and functions of Australia's head of state.

The company head office is in the Simpson Tower in Toronto, Ontario.