Word: appointer
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...provost does not have a final say in major University decisions. Does not sit as a member of the Harvard Corporation. Does not sit as a member of the deans' council. Does not appoint University deans...
...million of its arrears to the U.N., an organization Helms has reviled. But there was a catch: Helms insisted on U.N. policy changes that are still holding up the bulk of the payments. Before Holbrooke was sworn in, Helms asked the White House to appoint an alternate U.N. delegate: Irwin Belk, a feisty North Carolina buddy who heads a department-store chain. Clinton agreed, and Belk, who turned out to be a U.N. cheerleader, quickly became, as a top Administration aide chortles, a "national asset...
...majority may determine how our Constitution is interpreted for 30 or 40 years," Gore said, noting the next President might appoint as many as four judges to the bench...
...outcome. Cuban-Americans vented their anger in Miami Tuesday by closing down Little Havana in a "general strike," while Attorney General Janet Reno next week faces a Senate into the raid that reunited the boy with his father. The Miami relatives asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to appoint a guardian to monitor Elian's wellbeing, having been frustrated for four days in their efforts to see the boy because Juan Miguel Gonzalez wants more time alone with his son before he is prepared to consider a meeting. And Elian moved with his father to a private residence near...
...lawyer a former district attorney who had once prosecuted him; furthermore, the attorney was known to have been a cocaine addict, the information having come to light after he was involved in a drug-influenced traffic accident on the way to a fundraiser for the judge who would later appoint him as defense counsel. The attorney was also $90,000 in debt to the IRS and suspected of embezzling funds from the district attorney's office; as a result of his appointment he was eventually paid almost...