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 New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Governor-General also chairs the Executive Council, which is a formal committee consisting of all ministers of the Crown.
Members of the Executive Council are required to be Members of Parliament, and most are also in Cabinet.
Cabinet is the most senior policy-making body and is led by the Prime Minister, who is also, by convention, the Parliamentary leader of the governing party or coalition.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand   (5299 words)

  
 Railway Age Editorial Staff
With Railway Age since 1992, Bill Vantuono has broadened and deepened the magazine's coverage of the technological revolution that is so swiftly changing the industry.
He has also strengthened Railway Age's leadership position in industry affairs with the conferences he conducts on operating passenger trains on freight railroads and communications-based train control.
With articles encompassing all railway industry disciplines, she is giving railroaders a "heads-up" on the latest in the industry.
www.railwayage.com /abouteditors.html   (600 words)

  
 Canada in the Making - Glossary
In 1872, he was accused of buying a government contract to build a railway to the Pacific after it came to light that he had contributed $350,000 to the campaign of the Conservative Party.
He became a prominent railway executive and entered politics as a reformer in 1849, representing Sherbrooke from 1849 to 1850, and 1853 to 1867.
As a small newspaper publisher for the Irish community, he called for the Confederation, a transcontinental railway, prairie settlement, a protective tariff against the Americans, and the development of a distinctive form of Canadian literature in his editorials.
www.canadiana.org /citm/reference/biographies_e.html   (11053 words)

  
 excerpts from the 1888 Chambers's Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge
All the fittings for thus adapting railway trains to hospital purposes are now kept permanently m store in many of the countries of the continent.
A. of W. for the Marine Forces, till 1879 made under the authority of another annual Mutiny Act, are now regulated by the Discipline Act.
Unlike the A. of W. for the army, they do not issue directly from the Crown, but are made by the Lord High Admiral, or by the commissioners for executing that office, but they are authorized so to be made by the last-mentioned Mutiny Act.
vickipedia.livejournal.com   (4257 words)

  
 Mutsutake Otsuka 1932—
■ In 2000 Mutsutake Otsuka, the son of a Southern Manchuria Railway executive, became president and chief executive officer of East Japan Railway Company (JR East), the largest railway company in the world.
Following a loss of $14 billion in 1985, Japan National Railways was privatized and divided, which led to the establishment of JR East in 1987.
In 2002 Union East became the first of the stations to be renovated and expanded.
www.referenceforbusiness.com /biography/M-R/Otsuka-Mutsutake-1932.html   (536 words)

  
 iParenting Media Awards
Experts, licensed childcare facilities and parents then reviewed the products and submitted a thorough evaluation of each item.
Results were compiled and submitted to the iParenting Media Executive Committee for final approval.
The end result of this comprehensive process is a list of award-winning products that parents can feel confident in purchasing for their families.
www.iparentingmediaawards.com /press/050404.php   (627 words)

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