** in the US, eye contact, a nod of the head toward each other, and a smile, with no bowing ; the palm of the hand faces sideways, neither upward nor downward, in a business handshake.

After the dissolution of the OSS in 1945, Marcuse was employed by the US Department of State as head of the Central European section, retiring after the death of his first wife in 1951.

A halter ( US ) or headcollar ( BI ) ( occasionally headstall ) consists of a noseband and headstall that buckles around the horse's head and allows the horse to be led or tied.

Politics of Liberia takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic modeled on the government of the United States, whereby the President is the head of state and head of government ; unlike the United States, however, Liberia is a unitary state as opposed to a federation and has a pluriform rather than the two-party system that characterizes US politics.

Milken's compensation, while head of the high-yield bond department at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the late 1980s, exceeded $ 1 billion in a four-year period, a new record for US income at that time.

On September 7, 1977, the Torrijos-Carter Treaties were signed by the Panamanian head of state and U. S. President Jimmy Carter for the complete transfer of the Canal and the fourteen US army bases from the US to Panama by 1999.

In the US, a Drum Major carrying a large baton or mace will often salute by bringing the right hand, holding the mace with the head upward, to the left shoulder.

Japan's Akashi Yasushi, UN undersecretary for disarmament, was head of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia, and Japan pledged US $ 3 million and even sent approximately 2, 000 personnel, including members of the SDF, to participate directly in maintaining the peace.

** Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US $ 3-million bounty on the head of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.

Mike Darnell, head of reality TV for the US Fox network, was quoted as saying that the broadcast networks ( NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox ) " might as well plan three or four shows each season because we're going to have them, anyway.

In 2001, the FBI's representative in Tokyo arranged for Tadamasa Goto, the head of the group Goto-gumi, to receive a liver transplant in the United States, in return for information of Yamaguchi-gumi operations in the US.

The first 1 % or so of distillate that is produced, called the " head ," has an alcohol concentration of about 83 % ( 166 US proof ) and an unpleasant odour, so it is discarded ( generally, mixed with another batch of low wine, thereby entering the distillation cycle again ).

The 5. 2-amp motor on older US units provides respectable suction, but they all lack a motorized brush head.

As a result, the US put a $ 25, 000 bounty on his head and attempted to arrest and try him for war crimes.

US Representative, former head of the World Bank.

In 1948, he returned to the US to head the Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) at Offutt Air Force Base, replacing Gen George Kenney.

In Mexico, as Jim Chaparro — head of the anti-smuggling office at the US Immigration and Naturalization Service — puts it, the once small and informal smuggling business has evolved into a powerful web of " literally hundreds of syndicates, some at a low level and some at the kingpin level ".

After Rupert Murdoch, the head of Fox Studios and an Australian, saw the new Fox studios were moved to Sydney, some US producers have chosen to film at Fox's state of the art facilities as production costs in Sydney are well below US costs.

The historic Pulaski Skyway takes US 1 / 9 into Jersey City, and the route exits the freeway at Tonnele Circle to head north into Bergen County.

Sutherland replaced J. C. R. Licklider as the head of the US Defense Department Advanced Research Project Agency's Information Processing Techniques Office ( IPTO ), when Licklider returned to MIT in 1964 .< ref >

Lack of Representation in US Congress has been a major factor in removing national head quarters to neighboring counties that still have voting rights and Congressional vote trading.

As the head of the MACV he was known for highly publicized, positive assessments of US military prospects in Vietnam.

In 1997, Rubin and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan strongly opposed giving the Commodity Futures Trading Commission oversight of over-the-counter credit derivatives when this was proposed by Brooksley Born, the head of the CFTC.

He was the head of the London office of Morgan Futures from 1981-4, then the head of the Sterling and Arbitrage Swaps Desk from 1984 to 1986.

In addition Tim Belden, head of the West Coast Trading Desk and John Forney, an energy trader who invented various electricity trading strategies such as the Death Star, operated from the trading floor in the PGE corporate offices and were also convicted of financial crimes related to the California Electricity Crisis.

Shen, the managing director of Maysun Trading Co. and the former head of the Central Trust of China, who became the first ethnic Chinese to be appointed to the position of Chief Manager of the bank.

In May 2001, Belakovskaia became the head of the Weather Derivatives desk at Williams EM & T ( Energy, Marketing and Trading ).

In 1926, Hughes was appointed by New York Governor Alfred E. Smith to be the chairman of a State Reorganization Commission through which Smith's plan to place the Governor as the head of a rationalized state government, was accomplished, bringing to realization what Hughes himself had envisioned.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission found that five times more black people than white people per head of population in England and Wales are imprisoned.

The head of Albania's Economic Planning Commission and one of Hoxha's allies, Nako Spiru, became the leading critic of Yugoslavia's efforts to exert economic control over Albania.

Senate Majority Leader Dole and Gingrich appointed Kemp to head a tax reform commission, ( the Kemp Commission ), in response to voter concern that the tax code had become too complicated.

The President of the European Commission is the head of the European Commission ― the executive branch of the: European Union ( EU ) ― the most powerful officeholder in the EU.

In January 2000, Ekéus was nominated to head the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspections Commission ( UNMOVIC ), charged with investigating allegations that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Sikhs are represented in Indian politics by the current Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is the head of the government ( the nominal head is the President of India ) and wields the supreme authority, including the nuclear button, and the Deputy Chairman of the Indian Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia.

Warren Skaaren, then head of the Texas Film Commission, helped secure the distribution deal with Bryanston Pictures.

The Lord Mayor is also the head of the Commission of Lieutenancy, which represents the Sovereign in the City of London ( other counties usually have Lord Lieutenants, as opposed to Commissions ), and annually attends the Treloar Trust ( named after Sir William Treloar, Lord Mayor in 1906 ), in Hampshire.

* Sir Bob Cooper-A former Deputy Leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland and formerly the long-serving head of the Fair Employment Commission for Northern Ireland.

In November 2009 he was additionally appointed head of the National Commission of Telecom, a position traditionally independent from Ministry of Public Works and Housing.

After The Economist ran a critique of Amnesty International and human rights in general in its issue dated 24 March 2007, its letters page ran a vibrant reply from Amnesty, as well as several other letters in support of the organisation, including one from the head of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

By 1976 she was head of the animal-disease-control division of D. C .' s Commission on Public Health, and in 1980 was among those named as Washingtonian of the Year.

The name " Juneau " was submitted, which represented Pierre Juneau, the first head of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission.

The 2009 meeting participants in Greece included: Greek prime minister Kostas Karamanlis ; Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen ; Sweden foreign minister Carl Bildt ; United States Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg ; U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ; World Bank president Robert Zoellick ; European Commission head José Manuel Barroso ; Queen Sofia of Spain ; and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

The most common locking method is a rotating bolt with two lugs on the bolt head, which was used by the Lebel Model 1886 rifle, Model 1888 Commission Rifle, Mauser M 98, Mosin – Nagant and most bolt action rifles.

Though residents rallied in his support, the Commission voted to reassign Turner as the department head for the Academy.

He was appointed by New York Mayor John Lindsay to head the Commission Against Poverty.

* Jovita Fontanez 1984, head of Boston Election Commission, member of Massachusetts Electoral College

* Secretary of Higher Education ( head of the Maryland Higher Education Commission ), currently James E. Lyons, Ph. D.

In 1919, he became the nominal head of the US Commission to the Paris Peace Conference.

Local government was based on a Mayor Commission, with each commissioner functioning as head of a municipal department.

Avoca is home to a grain elevator, it is a trail head of the Wadhams to Avoca Trail and holds the Saint Clair County Road Commission Garage for the northern portion of the county.