Sentences with phrase «then president»

Here in the Hudson River valley the then president of the Audubon Society expressed it best when he wrote in 1964 that the Storm King project became controversial «because it has brought home the truth that a line must be drawn somewhere if America is not to lose one of its great scenic treasures.»

If we somehow convicted them, their lawyers would have them out on appeal for ten years, and then a President would pardon them.

Everything you need to know about James Delingpole can be found in an interview he gave to Paul Nurse (Nobel Laureate, then President of the Royal Society) for a BBC documentary in which he stated that he has never read a scientific paper, and that he didn't need to understand the science he was criticizing.

I hope you'll listen to the full exchange, and perhaps explore the longer conversation, which included Steven Chu, then President Obama's secretary of energy, the computer scientist Edward A. Feigenbaum and others.

If that moment does not come, and the «junk shot» option doesn't do the trick, then President Obama faces a truly tough moment on Friday, when he plans to visit the increasingly soiled shores of the Gulf of Mexico for the second time since the blowout.

The work in his finals show at the Royal Academy Schools, London, in 1960, was ordered off the walls by the then president of the Royal Academy, although Hoyland was still awarded his diploma.

It was a Saturday evening, and thousands of people had gathered in la Plaza de la Constitución, the capital city's main square, to call for the resignation of the country's then president, Otto Pérez Molina.

They notably point to a 1969 exchange of letters with her cousin Harry Guggenheim, then president of the foundation, in which he accepted her strict conditions that the collection should be «kept as a whole and at the palazzo», without additions.

She went on to lead the Studio Museum in Harlem as the institution's executive director and then president for over seven years.

Her groundbreaking career includes serving as director and then president of the Studio Museum in Harlem (2000 - 2007) and being appointed the first and, thus far, only African American curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she worked from 1972 to 1999.

As General Manager and then President of Channel 13, Jay Iselin was largely responsible for making Public Television a vital force in broadcast journalism, originating such programs as Nature and The MacNeil / Lehrer NewsHour.

Eighteen years ago, Arch Gillies, then President of the Warhol Foundation, took me to lunch to talk about the seed of an idea: a new initiative that would support individual artists in a radically different way, combining money with advisory -LSB-...]

At the 2013 announcement of the new semester exchange, then President Bharucha called IITB, «a premier institute for engineering education» and «the most selective engineering school in India.»

Adrian Jovanovic is co-founder and President of Committee to Save Cooper Union, which stepped in and legally challenged the tuition - charging expansionary direction set by then President Bharucha and the Board of Trustees from that period.

In 1987, Schnabel's work was the subject of a traveling museum exhibition curated by Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Modern, and Dominique Bozo, then president of the Centre Pompidou.

She was also the executive director, then president, of the Studio Museum in Harlem from 2000 to 2007, in addition to being the museum's adjunct curator for the permanent collection.

«This major exhibition of Schnabel's recent paintings from the last ten years is the first museum exhibition in the United States since 1987 when Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Modern, and Dominique Bozo, then president of the Centre Pompidou, curated a traveling exhibition that went from: Whitechapel Gallery, London, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco and ended up at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas where Schnabel once lived as a young painter.

From 2000 - 2007 Sims was executive director then president of The Studio Museum in Harlem and served as Adjunct Curator for the Permanent Collection.

Hoyland's work in his finals show so shocked the Royal Academy Schools that the then president of the RA ordered it off the walls.

Prior to joining MAD, she served as Executive Director and then President of the Studio Museum in Harlem.

For over fifty years, Thiebaud has been a fixture of American Art, the recipient of numerous awards, with highlights including the 1994 National Medal of Arts, given by the then President Clinton, a 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Design, and a 2007 Bay Area Treasure Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Then the president of Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils - Aime went out and was warmly greeted by the crowd.

The entire games industry was in mourning in July of last year when it was announced that then President and CEO of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata had passed away after complications due to a tumor at the age of 55.

All this was done under the watchful eye of the formidable Hiroshi Yamauchi, then president of Nintendo Japan.

In a 2013 Financial Report Q&A, then President Satoru Iwata was quoted saying:

Calauit was decreed a game preserve and wildlife sanctuary in August 1976 by then President Ferdinand E. Marcos.

It came into being in August 1988, when the then President of Philippines, Corazon Aquino, declared it a National Marine Park.

The district sought to lease or divest the Dana site; community activists, led by Ann Tripp Jackson (then president of the Point Loma Association), lobbied for its reopening as a school.

Indeed, in a 2008 interview with Animal Sheltering, Mark Kumpf, then president of the National Animal Care and Control Association, compared the traditional approach to «bailing the ocean with a thimble.»

Devine — then president / CEO, and now chairman — made PETCO stores larger, growing a 15,000 - square - foot format to compete against the 25,000 - square - foot (now 19,500 - square - foot) PetSmart model.

In 1993, the lure of affordable housing tempted him (a mistake) to leave the Bay Area, first as v.p. for Humane Society of the U.S. in Washington, D.C., and then President of Arizona Humane Society where he completed the 20 - acre Campus For Compassion and dramatically increased adoptions and life - saving programs (one example, a 62» long mobile spay / neuter clinic free service for companion animals on the Navajo Nation).

I was a committee member, then committee chair, then President, then Secretary / Treasurer.

My main Swedish contact and mentor was Britta Hammarström, then president of the Swedish club.

He quickly became involved in the administration of the Club, firstly as Secretary, then President and when appointed to the Council of the Canine Association of South Australia (now Dogs SA) and the Royal Agricultural Society of South Australia Council, he wasn't allowed to hold a position on a Club, so he was appointed Patron, a position he held until his death.

Signed into law back in 1944 by then President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights) offered veterans a federally guaranteed home loan with zero money down.

Then President Eisenhower signed the REIT Act into law and a new world of investment was opened to people like you and me.

Alan Greenspan was assigned to his post by then president R. Reagan and has become the first person to have been assigned as a chairman for such a long period of time.

He went on to become executive director of the Ontario Securities Commission and then president of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada.

If FHASecure fails, then the President's program will be revealed for what it is: jawboning and voluntary efforts that produce little result.

How he became the leading Republican in Illinois, then president, and then successful commander - in - chief is a wondrous story, brilliantly interpreted here.

Then the president of the agency took over and became my client's agent.

The France plant was inaugurated in the year 1997 by then President Jacques Chirac and Federal Chancellor Helmul Kohl.

In 2008, Jennifer M. Bay - Williams, then president of the Association for Mathematics Teacher Educators, noted that NTLC participation had been worthwhile for that association because «strong leadership and collaboration is important for support of technology in a world challenged by funding constraints, new standards for accountability, and a shortage of technology - using teachers» (CITE Journal, Vol.

Though then President Dwight Eisenhower knew well in advance of the impending event, his calculations as to the American public's response to Sputnik... Continue reading →

One day I received a phone call from Kim Ursetta, then president of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association, about an incredible opportunity.

In the 1970's and early 80's, Kirst served as an Advisor to the California Governor, Jerry Brown, and as a Member and then President of the California State Board of Education.

(When Kirst and colleagues produce a memo for then President Johnson proposing a budget of 750 million dollars, Johnson sent it back saying «none of these is good enough, I want a billion dollars.»).

To Miller, the most important part of the law — which was championed by then President George W. Bush — was to require districts to publish data on how well students were doing.

Three years prior to Minnesota becoming the first state to authorize charter schools, Albert Shanker, then president of the American Federation of Teachers, outlined his vision for schools of choice, which would later be dubbed charter schools because of the «agreement» or «charter» required to start them.

Since the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed into law by then President Obama on December 10, 2015, states have had the mandate to design new accountability systems that would meet the requirements of the legislation and begin implementation in the 2017 — 18 school year.