Word: appointer
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That's because the next President will likely appoint several Justices to the Supreme Court, which, depending on the wisdom of those choices, could imperil the environmental progress we have achieved...
...matter-of-fact boilerplate that would have made Alan Greenspan proud, the attorney general declined once again Wednesday to appoint an independent counsel to look into the ways Gore filled his and Bill Clinton's coffers during the '96 campaign. No Buddhist temple. No White House coffees. No more "iced-tea Al" and those bathroom breaks. The probe, going nowhere, will continue that same route in-house...
...Harvard Corporation, the University's oldest and most powerful governing board, has always dominated the search for the president. As it has whenever a president of the University resigns, the Harvard Corporation will appoint six of its seven members to the committee to search for a successor. The seventh member, the outgoing president, is the only member of the Corporation that does not serve on the search committee...
When President James B. Conant '14 sought to appoint a curator for the new college poetry room in 1932, he personally offered the post to Robert Frost, then at the height of his fame. Frost, who had won the Pulitzer prize the year before for his new Selected Poems, wished the room well but politely said that he preferred to remain at his home in Amherst, Mass...
Haviaris's colleagues in the English Department are worried about the post as well. Buell says he does not know when the library intends to appoint a successor, if ever...