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Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina1954family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">– Chairwoman, chief executive officer, and president, Hewlett-Packard Company Nationality: American. Born: September 6, 1954, in Austin, Texas. Education: Stanford University, BA, 1976; Robert H. Smith School of Business at University of... Read more |
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Thomas Robert Cech
Thomas Robert Cech , 1947-, American microbiologist, b. Chicago, grad. Univ. of California, Berkeley. A professor at the Univ. of Colorado, he discovered that RNA could function as enzymes; it was previously thought that enzymatic activity was only possible in protein molecules. His discovery has a... Read more |
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William Richard Tolbert Jr
William Richard Tolbert, Jr. , 1913-80, president of Liberia (1971-80). In government since 1935, he was vice president (1951-71), succeeding to the Presidency upon Tubman's death in 1971. Instituting reforms to close the disparity between Americo-Liberians and indigens, he raised expectations while... Read more |
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Progressive party
Progressive party in U.S. history, the name of three political organizations, active, respectively, in the presidential elections of 1912, 1924, and 1948. Election of 1912 Republican insurgents dissatisfied with the conservative administration of President William Howard Taft formed (Jan., 1911)... Read more |
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Twelfth Amendment
TWELFTH AMENDMENT The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots... Read more |
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Carlos Ibanez del Campo
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo , 1877-1960, president of Chile (1927-31, 1952-58). An army general who served as minister of war (1925-27) and vice president (1927), he became president upon the forced resignation of President Emiliano Figueroa. He ruled dictatorially, suppressing all... Read more |
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United States Secret Service
United States Secret Service a law enforcement division (since 2003) of the Dept. of Homeland Security. It was established in 1865 in the the Dept. of the Treasury to investigate and prevent counterfeiting of currency, officially becoming a distinct organization within the department in 1883. The... Read more |
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Vice President
VICE PRESIDENT The vice president of the United States occupies a high position in government, yet is given little responsibility under the U.S. Constitution. A person elected vice president presides over the Senate, but apart from that duty, he or she must rely upon the president to assign... Read more |
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David Rice Atchison
David Rice Atchison , 1807-86, U.S. Senator, b. Frogtown, Ky. A lawyer and politician in Missouri, he served in the Senate from 1843 to 1855. As a proslavery Democrat, Atchison was instrumental in having the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed. He is sometimes regarded as having been "president for a... Read more |
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Twenty-Fifth Amendment
TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President,... Read more |
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