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James R. Gaines

A graduate of New York’s McBurney School and the University of Michigan, Gaines is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Historical Association, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Overseas Press Club, and the Online News Association.


ACLU v. Clapper

The named defendants include Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, NSA Director Keith B. Alexander, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Attorney General Eric H. Holder, and FBI director James B. Comey.

Chicago Central Area Transit Plan

In 1979, then-mayor Jane M. Byrne of Chicago and former Illinois governor James R. Thompson reached an agreement whereby the Franklin Line subway project, along with the Crosstown Expressway on the West Side, was to be canceled, the elevated Loop retained and improved, and rapid transit improvements developed for residential sections of Chicago where improvements were needed.

Clapper

James R. Clapper, the current Director of National Intelligence of the United States

Dixonius siamensis

This is the type species of the genus Dixonius, named after James R. Dixon from Texas A&M University.

Doctoral Training Centre

The Cambridge Centre for Analysis (CCA) is a Centre for Doctoral Training which offers a PhD course in mathematical analysis at the University of Cambridge, directed by Professor James R. Norris and Professor Arieh Iserles.

Edmund P. Gaines

A number of places in the United States were named in his honor, including Gainesvilles in Florida, Texas, and Georgia; Gaines Township in Michigan; and Gainesboro in Tennessee.

Edward T. Hanley

Among the many notable individuals who Hanley counted among his friends were House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and former Illinois governor James R. Thompson.

Edwin Kneedler

From 1974 until 1975, he clerked for Judge James R. Browning on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Emergent organization

Alternatively, James R. Taylor wrote in 2000 his seminal book, The Emergent Organization, where he suggests that all organizations emerge from communication, especially from the interplay of conversation and text.

Eric P. Schwartz

At the Council on Foreign Relations, he directed the Independent Task Force on Post-Conflict Iraq, working closely with co-chairs Thomas R. Pickering and James R. Schlesinger.

Gordon Danby

Gordon T. Danby is an American physicist notable (together with Dr. James R. Powell) for his work on superconducting Maglev, for which he shared the Franklin Institute 'Medal 2000 for Engineering'.

Gray checkered whiptail

The epithet dixoni is in homage of renowned herpetologist James R. Dixon, which leads some sources to refer to it as Dixon's Whiptail.

James Barton

James R. Barton (1810?–1856), sheriff of Los Angeles County, California

James Goodman

James R. Goodman (born 1944), professor of computer science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand

James Lucas

James R. Lucas (born 1950), businessman and author, known as Jim

James R. Arnold

He was married to Louise Arnold for 60 years, and had three sons, Bob, Ted, and Ken.

James R. Barton

Barton was born in Howard County, Missouri, emigrated to Mexico in 1841 and moved to Los Angeles in 1843.

James R. Browning

Despite receiving a "Not Qualified" rating from the American Bar Association and publicized opposition from sitting Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, Browning was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 14, 1961, and received his commission on September 18, 1961.

James R. Domengeaux

In 1968 Domengeaux accepted an appointment from Louisiana Governor John J. McKeithen, his fellow Democrat, to preside over a new state-charted organization called the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, commonly known by the acronym CODOFIL.

Domengeaux did not seek reelection to Congress in 1948; instead he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in a race ultimately won by Russell B. Long, son of the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr. He was succeeded in the House by the freshman State Senator Edwin Edward Willis of St. Martinville, the seat of St. Martin Parish.

James R. Fannin

Fannin said that his former party had "moved too far left" for him to remain within the ranks, even as a Blue Dog Democrat.

James R. Gough

In 1895 he was involved in controversy over the planned world championship boxing contest between James J. Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons.

James R. Heath

When Heath was a graduate student at Rice University, he ran the experimental apparatus that generated the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the three senior members of the collaboration: Robert F. Curl and Richard E. Smalley of Rice University and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex.

James R. Houck

He also led development of Cornell's instrumentation for the Palomar Observatory Hale Telescope.

James R. Norris

He has made contributions to areas of mathematics connected to probability theory and mathematical analysis, including Malliavin calculus, heat kernel estimates, and mathematical models for coagulation and fragmentation.

James R. Powell

James R. Powell is an American physicist notable — together with Dr. Gordon Danby — for his work on superconducting Maglev, for which he shared the Franklin Institute "Medal 2000 for Engineering".

James R. Reid

James R. Reid resigned for health reasons in 1904, and was succeeded as president by Dr. James M. Hamilton, an economist.

James R. Stark

A surface warfare officer, his career included command of ships at sea, senior U.S. Navy and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commands, staff assignments with the Chief of Naval Operations and the National Security Council, and a tour as President of the Naval War College.

James R. Stewart

James Stewart G.S.A. Ph. (October 1, 1903 – April 30, 1964) was born in Morehead, MS, the son of a wealthy plantation owner; his uncle Professor William Stewart taught in Centreville, MS. He began school in Morehead and moved to Cleveland by 1915 where he studied art and commercial business.

James R. Tallon

He was a Democratic member from Broome County of the New York State Assembly from 1975 to 1993, was Majority Leader from 1987 through 1993, and was Acting Speaker for 3 days in 1991 after Mel Miller lost his seat upon a felony conviction until the election of Saul Weprin.

James R. Von Ehr II

Von Ehr is the former chief executive of Zyvex corporation, the world first molecular nanotechnology company, which he founded in 1997, and which later split into four branches (Zyvex Technologies, Zyvex Instruments (acquired by DCG Systems, Inc.), Zyvex Labs, and Zyvex Asia), and current CEO of Zyvex Labs and chairman of Zyvex Technologies.

James R. Wait

Between 1948 and 1951, he worked for Newmont Exploration in Jerome, Arizona, where his research led to several patents in both IP and EM methods of geophysical prospecting.

James R. Webb

After providing leadership in such prominent consulting firms as Price Waterhouse, Deloitte & Touche and EDS A.T. Kearney, he became an internationally known strategy consultant.

James R. Winchester

Winchester currently resides in Chickasha, Oklahoma, with his wife, State Representative Susan Winchester and their son, Davis.

James R. Young

He was the Chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the War Department in the 57th United States Congress.

John Gaines

John P. Gaines (1795–1857), lawyer, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, Mexican-American War officer, Governor of Oregon Territory

Lightweight Fighter program

To reflect this new, more serious intent to procure a new aircraft, along with its reorientation toward a fighter-bomber design, the LWF program was rolled into a new Air Combat Fighter (ACF) competition in an announcement by U.S. Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger in April 1974.

Lonely Are the Brave

The Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA gave the film a "Golden Reel Award" for "Best Sound Editing" (Waldon O. Watson, Frank H. Wilkinson, James R. Alexander, James Curtis, Arthur B. Smith), in a tie with Mutiny on the Bounty.

Magnetic levitation

1961 James R. Powell and BNL colleague Gordon Danby electrodynamic levitation using superconducting magnets

MillsporT

Founded in 1975 by James R. Millman, a 25-year-old event marketing executive with Philip Morris, Inc., Millsport gained notoriety and national prominence with its involvement in Olympic sponsorship in the 1990s.

Nellie Fox

The group grew to as many as 600 members, including Richard M. Daley, James R. Thompson, George Will and several former MLB players.

Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

James R. Lilley – Director of Asian Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, former US Ambassador to China and South Korea, and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

Robert Kostelka

Newly-converted Republican State Representative James R. Fannin of Jonesboro, who is term-limited in the House, is considered a leading prospect to seek Kostelka's seat.

Susan M. Gaines

She is the author of Best of the West (1992), Sacred Ground (1996), Carbon Dreams (2001), and co-author with Geoffrey Eglinton and Jurgen Rullkötter of Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History (2009).

Tawanna P. Gaines

Gaines has been a member of House of Delegates since December 21, 2001 when she was appointed by Governor Parris Glendening to fill the vacancy of Richard Palumbo who himself been appointed judge to the District Court of Maryland for Prince Georges County.

The Stolen White Elephant

"The Stolen White Elephant" is a short story written by Mark Twain and published in 1882 by James R. Osgood.

Tony Graffanino

In 2002, he coordinated and led baseball clinics for boys and girls from Mercy Home at U.S. Cellular Field and signed autographs at the James R. Thompson Center to promote the need for organ donors.

United States Attorney

It was organized by Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judge James R. Browning, who also served as its first chief.

Water Valley, Mississippi

Lloyd L. Gaines, plaintiff in groundbreaking 1940s civil rights case Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada


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