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William Edward Simon
William Edward Simon 1927-2000, U.S. secretary of the treasury (1974-77), b. Paterson, N.J. He served (1946-48) in the U.S. army in Japan, graduated from Lafayette College (1952), and became a Wall Street bond dealer. Recognized in the financial world as a leading expert on government bonds, Simon... Read more |
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Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou
Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou , 1911-74. French political leader, president of France (1969-74). Georges Pompidou taught school and then served in World War II until the fall (1940) of France, when he returned to teaching. In 1944 he served on the staff of General de Gaulle and later became a... Read more |
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Granville George Leveson-Gower 2d Earl Granville
Granville George Leveson-Gower Granville, 2d Earl , 1815-91, British statesman. He entered Parliament as a Whig in 1836 and held various cabinet positions under Lord John Russell, the earl of Aberdeen, and Viscount Palmerston. As colonial secretary (1868-70, 1886) under William Gladstone, he had a... Read more |
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Danzas Group
Danzas Group Peter Merian-Strasse 88 CH-4002 Basel Switzerland Telephone: (+41) 61-274-74-74 Fax: (+ 41) 61-274-74-75 Web site: http://www.danzas.com Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Deutsche Post AG Incorporated: 1840 as Maison de Commission et d Read more |
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John Bowes
Bowes, John (b London, 19 June 1811; d Streatlam, Co. Durham, 9 Oct. 1885). English collector. The illegitimate son of the 10th Earl of Strathmore, he married Josephine Coffin-Chevallier (1825–74), a French actress and amateur painter, in 1852, and they devoted much of their wealth and... Read more |
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George Pratt Shultz
George Pratt Shultz 1920-, American public official, b. New York City, grad. Princeton Univ., 1942, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1949. A professor of industrial relations, Shultz taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1946-57) and the Univ. of Chicago (1957-68). Under... Read more |
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Doncaster
Doncaster , town (1991 pop. 74,727) and metropolitan district, N central England, on the Don River. Doncaster is a communications center, located on important rail lines and roads, and a market for fruits, vegetables, and livestock. There are slaughterhouses, railroad shops, steel mills, and... Read more |
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linear programming
linear programming solution of a mathematical problem concerning maximum and minimum values of a first-degree (linear) algebraic expression, with variables subject to certain stated conditions (restraints). For example, the problem might be to find the minimum value of the expression x + y ... Read more |
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Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer , 1900-2002, German philosopher, b. Marburg. He taught at Kiel (1934-37), Marburg (1937-39), Leipzig (1939-74), and Frankfurt (1947-49) before becoming a professor at the Univ. of Heidelberg (1949-68). Influenced by his teacher Martin Heidegger , he made a major contribution to ... Read more |
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George Joachim Goschen 1st Viscount Goschen
George Joachim Goschen Goschen, 1st Viscount , 1831-1907, British statesman. A leading financier, he was elected (1863) to Parliament as a Liberal and was first lord of the admiralty (1871-74). In 1876 he negotiated the establishment of Anglo-French control over Egypt's finances. He later served... Read more |
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