In the Midwest when I had applied for a teaching position, I had gone through a series of interviews, moving up the ladder from the least influential administrator to the most.
Before he was the world's most influential golf administrator, he was arguably Britain's best amateur of the 20th century, a five-time British Amateur champion.
The former minister for communications and information technology, too, is in jail facing charges of financial impropriety, as are five top corporate executives, an influential sports administrator and a few bureaucrats.
Rolf Liebermann, Swiss composer and influential opera administrator who was director of the Hamburg (Ger.) Opera from 1959 to 1972 and went on to serve from 1973 to 1980 as administrator of the Paris Opéra, to which he brought new life and vitality; he returned to Hamburg in 1985 and spent three more seasons there (b. Sept. 14, 1910, Zürich, Switz. d. Jan . 2 , 1999Paris, France).
The American biomedical research enterprise "is on an unsustainable path" that will lead to "long-term decline" unless "some fundamental features" undergo reform, four influential scientist-administrators state in a lengthy article published today.
A fast bowler and hard-hitting lower-order batsman, Allen later became an influential cricket administrator who held key positions in the Marylebone Cricket Club, which effectively ruled English cricket at the time; he also served as chairman of the England selectors.
Working closely with James E. Webb, the second head of the agency but the most influential of NASA administrators, he built an information program that embraced the news media and fed their appetite for news about space.
John Rockwell of The New York Times described him flatly as "the most innovative and influential performing arts administrator New York has known".
After an influential contributor and administrator at the online encyclopedia Wikipedia was found last week to have invented a history of academic credentials, Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's co-founder and globetrotting advocate, called for a voluntary system for accrediting contributors who say they have advanced degrees, like a Ph.D or M.D.
