After taking office in 1998, he helped spearhead efforts to change the system.
* We would spearhead efforts in trade talks to reduce U.S., European and Japanese farm subsidies.
Created in 2002, the agency was expected to spearhead efforts to get people off welfare and into work.
The government must now spearhead efforts to support the steel industry and the supply chains it feeds.
Mr. Kikukawa was replaced by Shuichi Takayama, a managing director of the company, who bowed deeply in front of flashing cameras and promised to "spearhead efforts to restore confidence" in Olympus.
Meanwhile, in a speech in London, Mr Brown said he would seek to spearhead efforts to secure rapid implementation of more powers for the Scottish Parliament in the event of a "No" vote.
He said the center, now being built on NIH's suburban Washington, D.C., campus, would spearhead efforts to develop, within a decade, a vaccine to prevent people from acquiring the HIV virus.
At USC, officials said the campus would direct new funds, launch discussion forums and appoint several key staff members to spearhead efforts to increase campus understanding of multiculturalism.
It could also help spearhead efforts to coordinate multilaterally between the ASEAN states on issues of the environment -- which the body has yet to convincingly address head-on.
As mayor, I will spearhead efforts to do what private businesses do daily to survive in difficult times: become more efficient and innovative.
The speaker also helped spearhead efforts to fund the legal defense of undocumented immigrants facing deportation after tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors began arriving from Central America in 2014.
