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Peter Carl Mackay (1881-1965), rather than being a chief of the Falasha tribe of Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia), came from the Caribbean.
His colleague, Wolf Blitzer, stopped questioning a pundit to talk by phone with a Louisiana parish president (basically, a county chief executive) who was desperate to get word out that a levee in his parish was about to fail.
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He and his two talented lieutenants, Peter S. Kim (chief of research) and Peter Loescher (chief of just about everything else), have made impressive changes in a short time.
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And while the Peronists are a single (albeit fractious) party accustomed to a single chief, the two-party Alliance has a collective leadership.
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That said, the going forward approach then is to have a process for reporting seemingly disparate small security issues, and having a person to report them to (in most organizations a chief information security officer or CISO) who can put them all together in the context of a larger attack.
The latest batch started on April 27th, when a drunk (or drugged) police-station chief opened fire on the street and in a supermarket, killing three people and injuring another seven with a gun that had been listed as missing for nine years.
For Mintz, a 39-year-old accountant and former chief executive of a cooperage (wine-barrel-making business) and Twelftree, 38, with a background in construction and small-scale wine exporting, the change is music to their ears.
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Ramanathan, had risen from humble beginnings to end life as a Prime Minister (Chief Advisor) to no less than two important Regional Monarchs.
He said the government was working with the Association of Chief Police Offices (Acpo) to create a new task force "to better inform intelligence and ensure those responsible for these crimes are brought to justice".
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Her choice of Gleisi Hoffmann, a newly elected senator for the ruling Workers' Party (PT), as her new chief of staff is a bold, but risky, attempt to recover the political initiative.
During a spell as the World Bank's chief economist, he circulated a notorious (and only semi-joking) memo, leaked to The Economist, calling for pollution to be exported to the third world, which had too little of it.
"It really does need to go to a new level -- these conversations where I'm asking my police chief (to) help me with what we need to understand going into a situation that could turn as bad as Gwinnett County and New York, " said Schwartz, who's also chief of the Arlington County, Virginia, Fire Department.
Small businesses are hampered less by a lack of loans than a shortage of customers, argues Bill Dunkelberg, chief economist of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), a trade group.
Frank Sorrentino, chairman and chief executive of ConnectOne Bank (and a Forbes contributor), wholeheartedly agrees.
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On March 17th Guo Shuqing, China's leading foreign-exchange official, replaced Mr Zhang as the bank's party chief (a job that usually goes with the chairmanship).
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"They have to batten down the hatches between now and then, " says Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein (and a former chief financial officer at Lehman).
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