Word: appointed
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Bush, who campaigned as a centrist, must stick to that platform when he enters the White House on Jan. 20. He will be confronted by an almost evenly-divided Congress and an evenly-divided electorate. As a show of good faith, Bush has demonstrated an eagerness to appoint Democrats to his Cabinet, which would be a step in the right direction. Democrats in Congress and across the nation should work with him on issues of mutual interest...
...will find it a lot more partisan in Washington, [but] I anticipate that he will appoint several Democrats and work hard to work across party lines," Hance said...
...Finding a middle ground "The fracas could force Bush to appoint more moderate judges to fill any high court vacancies because of the opposition that more conservative nominees undoubtedly would generate in the Senate confirmation process," Allan Lichtman, presidential historian at American University in Washington, told the Los Angeles Times...
...more in line with the thinking of democratic countries. But there was a strong conservative backlash against that policy, particularly from within the security and intelligence establishment, which insisted that Russian national interests were being sold out. Eventually, Boris Yeltsin was forced to succumb to this pressure, and appoint Yevgeny Primakov as his foreign minister, straight from Primakov's position as head of foreign intelligence...
...confined to a short list of its own professors. Furthermore, Social Studies could--and we would argue, should--have many of the advantages which Benhabib misses in its current organization without having to endure the long process involved in becoming a department. In order to allow Social Studies to appoint some of its own senior faculty and to sponsor graduate level studies, the administration could grant the Committee special recognition, similar to that which the Religion and Women's Studies committees now enjoy...