Who would ever believe a tale of a U.S. presidential election being decided in a state whose governor is one of the candidate's brothers?
In essence, the campaign of Vice President George Bush managed to paint Gov. Michael Dukakis as a figure out of touch with mainstream America, whose record as governor was fatally flawed.
Bringing fish and seafood from the quay via auctions and wholesalers in curved rows of warehouses through to the end-buyers, it is the last echo of a Tokyo whose loss the governor seems to mourn.
So too can their chairman, Leszek Balcerowicz, the central-bank governor, whose term runs until 2007.
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Sergei Dubinin, the central bank governor, whose mishandling of interest rates has helped drive the rouble down?
The local Palestinian governor, whose headquarters is in the Arab town of Tubas, paid a call, before also hurrying away.
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But the governor, whose sterling reputation was tarnished recently when one of his top campaign contributors was convicted of fraud and bribery, announced on August 20th that he is retiring after two terms as governor and 30 years in politics.
His father, Hugh (later Lord Caradon), was a diplomat and colonial servant whose career included terms as governor of Cyprus and Britain's ambassador to the United Nations.
In Kentucky, Republican Governor Ernie Fletcher, whose term has been riddled with controversy, is the latest political Lazarus.
The European Union wants to shut the office of the high representative, a sort of governor-generalship, whose power has anyway more or less evaporated.
His list of black successes includes John Street, the former mayor of Philadelphia, and Deval Patrick, the governor of Massachusetts, whose speeches sometimes bear an uncanny resemblance to Mr Obama's.
Does the Democratic Leadership Council--the centrist policy factory whose founders in 1985 included an Arkansas governor who later wound up in the White House--benefit mainly Democrats or the whole country?
My short answer to that is no, for the rather obvious reason that he's already the Governor of a G7 central bank whose approach and policy target is pretty similar to ours.
Governor Haley Barbour, the one politician whose stock rose after Katrina, also spoke.
"He's got to be the only governor in the United States of America whose former chief of staff is now sitting in jail, " said state Democratic Party Chairman David Leland.
The brawl finally landed in July on the desk of California Governor Gray Davis, who signed a bill whose sole intent is to let Roski develop the land irrespective of Redlands' opinion.
The Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus on whose watch this disastrous concentration of risk was accumulated was Anathasios Orphanides, now among the most vocal of those leveling accusations of blackmail.
Smith IV, whose great-grandfather and namesake was a four-time New York governor and a presidential candidate.
Well what the soon-to-retire governor, Sir Mervyn King, might reply is that there are few countries whose banks are so huge relative to the size of the economy.
Geithner is the guy whose judgment is so poor that in 2008, while serving as the New York Fed governor, he chose to save Bear Stearns and let another bank far more critical to the global economy, Lehman Brothers, go under.
When Elizabeth (Betsy) McCaughey was lieutenant governor of New York in the 1990s, forging a combative reputation for clashing with Governor George Pataki and her own party, she kept hearing from bereaved constituents whose loved ones had entered the hospital for treatment, only to die from infections they got there.
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