Diffrient was a frustrated industrial designer with pioneering achievements, including the first chair whose height could be adjusted via a gas piston and spring, and a fold-up office table that replaced screws and plates with simple interlocking hinges.
From 1970 to 1973, Russell Train was the first chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) in the Executive Office of US President Richard Nixon, at the time when the World Heritage initiative was launched in a Presidential message in 1971.
In 2008 he became the first UNESCO Chair holder at Bradford University.
You saw in Admiral Mullen the first joint chair to openly -- active joint chair to openly call for its repeal.
Australians who wanted to study their own literature at university, for instance, could not do so until 1962, when the University of Sydney set up the first full chair in Australian literature.
One of the considerations was the relative safety of direct current - the first electric chair seems to have been built (and then used) to prove that alternating current was more of a killer.
He was the former chair of the ABA White Collar Crime Committee and is currently the First Vice-Chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section.
Delegates concluded by selecting their first ever female chair, St Lucia's Jeannine Compton-Antoine.
Elizabeth Dole, who did not make the list this year, is the first woman to chair the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
The spokesperson added that with stagnant growth in the UK economy, and the crisis in international financial markets, the First Minister would chair a meeting of the Council for Economic Renewal next week.
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First, the Commission chair, Andrew Tyrie has the authority that comes from being elected to chair the Treasury Committee by the whole House of Commons - he's not an executive appointment who can be reined in by the whips.
"At first, I thought the chair I was sitting on had a screw loose or something, " Osman said.
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Kennard, the first African-American to chair the FCC, doesn't shy from racial issues.
One of her first duties will be to chair a controversial debate on the issue of gay ministers on Monday.
It was the second time he had won the chair, the first time was at the Rhymney Valley eisteddfod in 1990.
As for Song's first invention, the rocking chair stroller, it was a hit right from the start and remains Goodbaby's bestselling product in China.
Lufthansa added cabin humidifiers, and trumped the seat-to-flatbed race by adding both a flatbed and a chair to each first-class suite on their 747s.
Ms Huws, the first commissioner, was previously chair of the board.
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It was held with the participation of Mr. Douglas Tompkins, President of Foundation for Deep Ecology and Chair of the First Global Private Donor Forum, and Mr. Takuya Okada, Chairman of AEON Environmental Foundation, and called upon its participants to move forward towards private financial commitment for biodiversity conservation.
The elected chair of this first session, Danielle Mazzonis, noted in her closing remarks that the Scientific Council is off to a good start and the Council affirmed its readiness to help the Office fine-tune its strategy for addressing the challenges in the region, taking into consideration the current financial constraints that UNESCO finds itself in.
He's been busy since January, when he first sat down in the executive chair in Trenton, N.
In One57's den, it took five tries before the green lacquer was dark enough, and the first upholsterer working on a voluptuous chair in the living room quit because of the job's difficulty.
Kennedy remembers the first time he turned over in his chair after a hard collision with another player.
Their chair was ready for its first victim: William Kemmler, a man from Buffalo, New York, who had murdered his wife.
Their chair was ready for its first victim: William Kemmler, a Buffalo man who had murdered his wife with a hatchet.
Then in a quick, business-like and matter-of-fact manner, the chair addressed Daschle for the first time by his new title -- majority leader.
The showboating side of Verdasco reappeared at the worst possible moment as he mishit an overhead from the baseline so badly that it hit the umpire's chair and Federer converted his first break point of the day to level the match.
Best known for the 1988 MTV hit "Cult of Personality" and for making African-Americans more visible in mainstream rock music Living Colour visited WNYC a few days before releasing The Chair in the Doorway, its first album in six years.
The first woman to occupy the Speaker's chair was Betty Harvie Anderson (Conservative), appointed deputy chairman of the Ways and Means committee (a deputy speaker) in July 1970, taking the chair later that day during the Queen's Speech debate when she was addressed as 'Mr Deputy Speaker'.
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