Word: appointed
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...very moment when the Philippine Supreme Court was considering a petition from a group of lawyers assailing the legality of the impending ratification. The justices seemed stunned by the action. Presumably, they were aware that one of the provisions of the new constitution is that Marcos may appoint and dismiss Supreme Court justices at will...
...popular demand whatsoever, the European Parliament met at Strasbourg last week. Despite its sonorous and imposing name, it may well be the least effective arm of the expanding Common Market. Its 183 members, including 41 new Danish, Irish and British delegates, are not elected but appointed by their national legislatures. Established in 1958, the Strasbourg assembly never has had any say over the EEC's budget, personnel or policies. All of these are controlled by the large bureaucratic machine in Brussels. The European Parliament's one real power is the right to censure or even dismiss the Common...
...week long attack, which began on April 23 of 1962, cited Pusey's performance in a number of issues, small and large, and urged, among other things, that he appoint a dean of the Faculty immediately. Although the language of the editorials seems mild in light of recent years, the University as a whole was shocked by their appearance, and the letters column was flooded with protests from Pusey's partisans ranging from the dean of Public Health to the acting preacher to the University. The tactic of an elongated criticism of Pusey's conduct in office has remained controversial...
This was the time when The Crimson could appoint its first female Managing Editor in a perfectly matter of fact, normal fashion because she was the best person for the job, only to find that the national press was incredibly titillated by this bit of news, treated it as a kind of cute aberration with the assumption that once it was past The Crimson would return to its male clubbiness, which the world outside assumed was its natural order of business. All these things bothered us of course, but they didn't really bother us very much. When...
...Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History, carried the ball for the Faculty Council and pushed through a resolution which calls for the dean of the Faculty to appoint inter departmental search committees to seek out additional tenured members for the Department, and for the executive committee to consist of all full-time teaching members of the Department...