Word: appointed
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Bush will appoint doctors, lawyers and ethicists to a panel on bioethics to advise him on stem cells, cloning and other ethical quagmires of the brave new world. Dr. Leon Kass, who helped Bush make this decision, will lead the council...
...Although he was not born into an illustrious family, Tronchetti Provera married into one. His 1978 marriage to Cecilia Pirelli ended in divorce, but that didn't seem to hurt his stance with father-in-law Leopoldo, who continued to appoint him to top jobs at the family firm. (Tronchetti Provera has since taken up with a Tunisian model-showgirl known to Italians simply as Afef.) The Pirelli chairman does not yet yield the same kind of power as Agnelli, but he's trying. He took a major step in that direction last month when, together with the Benettons...
...minister recalls spending a night crunching a lengthy technical report to two pages for her. "She couldn't even get through the first few paragraphs," he lamented. "Then she asked if there were any new projects where she could cut the ribbon." Foreign investors are concerned that Megawati may appoint her husband's business cronies rather than solid professionals to the government's key economic jobs. Indonesia owes $140 billion in foreign debt, inflation is nearing double digits, and the rupiah is one of the weakest currencies in the region. Corruption remains rife. Many foreign companies have left, angered...
...Ohio's legislature neared its first round of forced retirements last year, 13 of 39 term-limited representatives quit to take jobs in the private sector or in Governor Bob Taft's administration. House speaker Jo Ann Davidson, term-limited herself, had to appoint three finance chairmen in a single year. "You have to run an ongoing orientation throughout the session," she says...
...Trent Lott now control the Senate because Vice President Dick Cheney casts the tie- breaking vote. But 98-year-old Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who spends many weekends in the hospital, is looking increasingly frail. The governor from his state is a Democrat and likely to appoint a Democrat to fill the seat if Thurmond leaves early. That would mean the Democrats control the Senate with a 51-49 majority, making Sen. Tom Daschle the majority leader...