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  Norm Rice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Norman B. Rice (born in 1943) was the 53rd mayor of Seattle, Washington.
Rice, then a city councilmember, ran again in 1989 amongst a crowded field after frontrunner city attorney Doug Jewett supported an anti-desegregation school busing initiative.
Rice ran for the Democratic nomination for Governor and was defeated by then-King County Executive Gary Locke in 1996.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norm_Rice   (161 words)

  
 The Department of Communication at the University of Washington - News
Norm Rice returned to the University of Washington campus on Thursday as the keynote speaker at the Department of Communication’s 2003 Graduation Celebration.
Norm Rice, one of the Department of Communications most prominent graduates, entered UW in the late 1960’s.
In 1978 Rice was elected to the Seattle City Council at the youthful age of 35.
www.com.washington.edu /Program/news/ricegraduation.html   (537 words)

  
 Norm Rice and Seattle have longstanding relationship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In an interview last Friday, Rice spoke with The Daily about a wide range of subjects: the declining health of the Ave, the proposed baseball stadium, the Seattle Commons and some of his experiences at the UW during the 1960s and 1970s.
The solution, according to Rice, is a balance between both increased law enforcement in the form of bicycle patrols and community policing, and the improvement of social services.
Rice also reflected on his experiences as a UW student, the story of which begins in his birthplace.
archives.thedaily.washington.edu /1995/102595/rice.html   (1429 words)

  
 HistoryLink Essay:Rice wins election as Seattle's first African American mayor on November 7, 1989.
Rice was reluctant to enter the 1989 race to succeed three-term mayor Charles Royer.
Rice and Jewett emerged from a crowded primary field in September 1989, and Rice ultimately won by a significant margin.
Rice was defeated by then-King County Executive Gary Locke for the Democratic nomination for Governor in September 1996.
www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=2234   (388 words)

  
 Whitman College Board of Trustees, Robert Ball, Norm Rice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rice gave Whitman's commencement address in the spring of 1998, when he was presented with an honorary doctor of laws degree.
Rice is currently a member of the Brookings Institution's Advisory Committee for Sustainable Communities, and he is co-chair of a capital campaign for First Place and Youthcare, two nonprofit organizations that serve children and teens.
Rice is married to Constance Williams Rice, who earned her doctoral degree in higher education at the University of Washington.
www.whitman.edu /news/robrice.html   (677 words)

  
 Norm Rice Elected to SAFECO Corporation Board of Directors; George Weyerhaeuser
Norm is committed to fostering the development of vibrant, diverse, self-sustaining communities, which matches up well with SAFECO’s efforts to target and support the social concerns of America’s neighborhoods," Eigsti continued.
Rice joined the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle in 1998 as its executive vice president, and was named president and CEO in February 1999.
Rice holds a bachelor of arts degree in communication and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Washington.
www.safeco.com /safeco/About_Safeco/News_&_Media/archive/1999_0505.asp   (474 words)

  
 Seattle's Norm Rice takes USCM helm
Mayor Norm Rice, however, is not about to let such a setback prevent him from improving Seattle's economic outlook.
Rice also fostered the development of diversity in the ranks of city government, and its cultural distribution has changed dramatically under his administration.
Since Rice's first term, minority appointments have increased by 60 percent, and fls account for nearly one-third of all top-ranking administrators and officials in Seattle city government.
americancityandcounty.com /mag/government_seattles_norm_rice   (1691 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Rice gets big fee to leave Seattle bank
Rice, a former Seattle mayor, left after the bank was placed under stricter regulatory scrutiny.
Although Rice's departure was called a retirement, he received separation pay of $367,333 under a "resignation and release agreement" with the home-loan bank, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Rice last year received a salary of $444,763, and a bonus of $80,621 paid for performance in 2003.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/businesstechnology/2002355429_fhlb02.html   (495 words)

  
 Whitman Rice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rice served two terms as mayor of Seattle and is now executive vice president of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle.
Rice joined the Seattle bank in March 1998 after serving as mayor of Seattle from 1990 to 1997.
Rice, who holds a bachelor of arts degree in communications and a master's degree in public administration from the University of Washington, is a member of the Whitman College Board of Overseers and the recipient of numerous honors and awards.
www.whitman.edu /news/News96-97/whitmanrice.html   (317 words)

  
 Breaking Rank | Norm Stamper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Norm Stamper, former chief of the Seattle Police force, has written a story like no other.
Norm Stamper was a different kind of chief: visionary and progressive, tough-minded but compassionate….
It was my honor to sit next to Chief Norm Stamper at the annual fallen officer’s memorial where he held Officer (Antonio) Terry’s young orphaned son on his knee and let the boy wear his hat.
www.normstamper.com   (535 words)

  
 The Hindu : Higher rice production likely next year
Rice and coarse grain production for 2000- 2001 is expected to be higher than last year, a meeting of kharif producing State Food Secretaries convened by the Union Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs Ministry, concluded here today.
Rice production this year is expected to be higher as the area under paddy sowing is about three lakh hectares.
During 1999-2000 the production of rice was 882.5 lakh tonnes out of which a quantity of 171.98 lakh tonnes was procured for the central pool.
www.hinduonnet.com /2000/09/13/stories/0213000p.htm   (686 words)

  
 HistoryLink Essay:Norm Rice unexpectedly enters race for Seattle Mayor on last day of filing, July 28, 1989.
Norm Rice unexpectedly enters race for Seattle Mayor on last day of filing, July 28, 1989.
Norm Rice and City Attorney and SOS author Doug Jewett would survive the September 19 primary, and Rice won the general election on November 7, 1989, by a large majority.
Norm Rice was elected to the Seattle City Council in a 1978 special election to succeed Phyllis Lamphere, and was re-elected in 1979, 1983, and 1987, as the body’s second African American member (after Sam Smith).
www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=4284   (889 words)

  
 The Rice Thresher Online | OPINION | Letters to the Editor
The evolution of the Rice environment over the past couple of years has made us realize that Rice is no longer the unique, carefree, supportive place we once thought it was.
When the upperclassmen matriculated, Rice was still a place where the students worked hard, but there was a great deal of room for fun and crazy events to take place.
Rice should be teaching us to nurture our sense of personal responsibility, not teaching us how to follow rules.
www.rice.edu /projects/thresher/issues/88/00.12.01/current/opinion/story6.html   (3295 words)

  
 Business Wire : Norm Rice, Former Mayor of Seattle -- 1990-1997 --, Responds to Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper's ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Current Article: Norm Rice, Former Mayor of Seattle -- 1990-1997 --, Responds to Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper's Resignation.
Start / B / Business Wire / December 07, 1999 / Norm Rice, Former Mayor of Seattle -- 1990-1997 --, Responds to Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper's Resignation.
Norm Rice, Former Mayor of Seattle -- 1990-1997 --, Responds to Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper's Resignation.
static.elibrary.com /b/businesswire/december071999/normriceformermayorofseattle19901997respondstoseat/index.html   (216 words)

  
 Norm Rice: Dancing on Hiroshima's Grave (August 5, 1997)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Norm's letter epitomizes both what's wrong with popular conceptions of the military and what's been wrong with Rice's long history of fact-free efforts to mollify everyone while continuing to cater to the powerful.
Norm is quick to mention that it's been over 50 years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hence a nuclear holocaust could never happen now.
If Rice really wants August 6 and 9 to be days of peace and justice in Seattle, he should do more than sign one of the dozens of pointless proclamations that pass through his office each week.
eatthestate.org /01-47/NormRiceDancing.htm   (927 words)

  
 Discovery Institute - Article Database - Norm Rice is ill-suited for nasty atmosphere of other Washington
If Norm Rice had ambitions to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development, who was I to argue against it?
Washington, D.C. and Washington State have 3000 miles of political culture separating them and Mayor Norm Rice is over at the "reasonable" end of even the Seattle spectrum.
Bureaucrats in the Municipal Building may have their wiles (they are bureaucrats, after all; wiles are issued with the union card), but ultimately they share the same Seattle "nice" culture and want to get along.
www.discovery.org /scripts/viewDB/?command=view&id=319   (821 words)

  
 Rice stepping down from the helm of federal bank
Former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice will step down as president and chief executive officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, a move that comes less than two months after regulators told the mortgage financier to improve its financial performance.
In his six-year tenure as president, Rice oversaw an increase in the bank's size from $36 billion in assets to more than $50 billion, and expansion of its affordable-housing financing programs.
Rice, who was mayor from 1990 to 1997, wasn't available for comment.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/210276_rice02.html   (572 words)

  
 Sound Transit chooses Rice for leader of outside review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
From 1990 to 1997, Rice was a board member in the rail-planning agencies that preceded Sound Transit and supported Sound Move -- the 1996 ballot measure that authorized the rail project.
Fimia said Rice had been one of the strongest supporters of the Capitol Hill tunnel.
Rice said that although he supported the tunnel, he has always had reservations about its cost and feasibility.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/rice25.shtml   (402 words)

  
 Regence BlueShield | About Us | News Media | Press Releases | Former Mayor Joins Regence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rice has been the president and chief executive officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle since February 1999.
Rice is also a member of the Brookings Institute’s Advisory Committee for Sustainable Communities and the Bretton Woods Committee.
Rice also served three terms as a member of the Seattle City Council and was its president for two years.
www.wa.regence.com /about/news/0051800mayorJoinsregence.html   (515 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Rice to step down as CEO of federal home-loan bank
Former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice is retiring as president and chief executive of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, effective March 15, at a time when the bank is under increased scrutiny from its regulator.
Rice, 61, has led the bank for six years.
Bley said Rice's retirement was "mutually agreed to" with the board, and was not required by the regulator.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/businesstechnology/2002167614_fhlb02.html   (536 words)

  
 Business Wire : Norm Rice Elected to SAFECO Corporation Board of Directors; George Weyerhaeuser Retires. @ HighBeam ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Current Article: Norm Rice Elected to SAFECO Corporation Board of Directors; George Weyerhaeuser Retires.
Start / B / Business Wire / May 05, 1999 / Norm Rice Elected to SAFECO Corporation Board of Directors; George Weyerhaeuser Retires.
Norm Rice Elected to SAFECO Corporation Board of Directors; George Weyerhaeuser Retires.
static.elibrary.com /b/businesswire/may051999/normriceelectedtosafecocorporationboardofdirectors/index.html   (233 words)

  
 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) : RICE'S RUN FOR GOVERNOR OFF TO A WELL-OILED START.(News) @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Promising to fight against those who would restrict abortion rights, limit gay rights and erode environmental protection, Seattle Mayor Norm Rice yesterday launched his campaign for governor with lightly attended news conferences in Spokane and Richland and a boisterous rally in downtown Seattle.
Rice - the latest entrant in a field of 10 major contenders for governor - distinguished himself from his Democratic competitors in both style and substance.
Rice is the only candidate who is alluding to gay and lesbian rights in his
static.highbeam.com /s/seattlepostintelligencerseattlewa/march071996/ricesrunforgovernorofftoawelloiledstartnews/index.html   (242 words)

  
 Ex-Mayor Rice questions plan for Seattle monorail - 2004-02-02
Former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice, now president and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, is ending his self-imposed restraint on speaking out about the $1.75 billion plan for a monorail from Ballard to West Seattle, via downtown.
Rice was speaking only for himself, but his words have weight because of his standing in the community.
Rice is unconvinced that a sustainable number of commuters will choose the monorail over the bus.
www.bizjournals.com /seattle/stories/2004/02/02/editorial4.html   (729 words)

  
 DJC.COM: Norm Rice heads Home Loan Bank, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
Former Seattle Mayor Norman B. Rice has been named the new president and chief executive officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle by the bank's board of directors.
Rice served as mayor of Seattle from 1990 through 1997.
Rice also is a past president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
www.djc.com /news/business/10050041.html   (163 words)

  
 Fun_People Archive - 26 Mar - Seattle and the Reverse Hustle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Seattle Mayor Norm Rice's gubernatorial campaign staff let him down on his recent announcement swing through Eastern Washington.
Undaunted, Rice struck up a conversation with one of his seat companions.
He told him he was running for governor and said, "I'll see if I can get the guy on the other side to vote for me." The man, deep into a book, looked up and said, "Why, you're Norm Rice.
www.langston.com /Fun_People/1996/1996AOD.html   (376 words)

  
 Rice leaving FHLB of Seattle - 2005-02-01   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice is retiring from his positions as president and chief executive of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle.
Rice's departure -- effective March 15 -- comes at a difficult juncture for the bank that he led for six years.
Rice, who twice represented the nation's 12 FHLBs at Congressional hearings, pledged cooperation with regulators, who nonetheless said they would closely supervise the wholesale mortgage lender's finances.
www.bizjournals.com /seattle/stories/2005/01/31/daily15.html   (531 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Norm Rice
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African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or Black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to West and sub-Saharan Africa.
In 1998, Rice was named president of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Norm-Rice   (644 words)

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