CHICAGO CUBS The grace period continues for the team's president for baseball operations, Theo Epstein, formerly of the Red Sox, who last year presided over the Cubs' first 100-loss season since 1966.
Mr. Spano, who earns $119,085 a year, presides over a budget of $1.2 billion, but the vast majority of it is devoted to programs mandated and largely financed by the state and federal governments, like social services.
Mr. Bush has spent years presiding over an economic climate of growth that would be the envy of most presidents.
The cerebral, centrist Mr. Cox represents a break from the parochial Republican county leaders who have led the state party in recent years, presiding over disastrous electoral results.
Dos Santos has been in power for almost 30 years, presiding over a bloody and long civil war in which he emerged the victor.
Hurwitz became leader of the ECO and held the position for 20 years, presiding over a group in which the string playing was without peer.
Lalu Prasad, 65, served as India's railway minister and Bihar's chief minister for many years, presiding over a state so mired in corruption and poverty that it became known as "the Jungle Raj".
Even so, it is hard not to conclude that the warning was too little and too late after Eisenhower had spent eight years presiding over the growth of that complex.
Propelled into office by magnates wary of popular rule and by TV Globo of the all-white telenovelas, Mr Collor spent three years presiding over the looting of the country by his sidekick, P.C. Farias.
Full privatisation had been politically toxic since the days of Railtrack, which spent six years presiding over a series of disasters in which passengers were killed, before going bust.
