scholar
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Prior to his appointment to the central bank in 2012 by then-president Obama, Powell was a scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
A precocious scholar and the editor of Lewis and Clark’s journals, Biddle might be America’s best-read central banker, though his bookishness cut no mustard with Andrew Jackson.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Bambaataa, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee, was appointed as a three-year visiting scholar at Cornell University in 2012.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Salon he is not hopeful the outbreaks can be contained at this point.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026
They count days since January 1, 4713 BC, a pretty-much arbitrary date that the scholar Joseph Scaliger chose in 1583.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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