Word: appointer
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...crucial parliamentary by-elections despite evidence of large-scale vote rigging and intimidation by supporters of President Robert Mugabe. His ruling ZANU-PF party is five seats short of the two-thirds parliamentary majority required to enact constitutional change. Opponents fear Mugabe could change the constitution to appoint his own successor, dumping requirements for an election. Death of a Militant Kashmir Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir shot dead Saif-u-Islam, the chief commander of the powerful Hizbul Mujahideen militant group. Supporters of Hizbul, which is waging a violent campaign against Indian rule, said Saif-ul-Islam was tortured...
...He’s known her better and worked with her longer than anyone else here, and I’m sure their history helped Summers gain the confidence he needed to appoint her,” Fried said...
...Third National Conference of the Commissions on the Status of Women at the Washington Hilton in late June 1966. The omens were not good. That week President Johnson and Lady Bird invited a few of us to tea at the White House. The President said he wanted to appoint talented women, but the problem was "finding these women." It was a weekend of lip service...
...Despite opposition from the U.S., China and India, the International Criminal Court - the world's first permanent court for the prosecution of human-rights abuses - was formally inaugurated in the Hague. With a mandate to try individuals accused of large-scale crimes against civilians, its first task is to appoint a prosecutor - a politically sensitive decision, since it is the prosecutor who will decide which cases the court pursues. Still Divided CYPRUS Talks aimed at reunifying the divided island before the Greek section joins the E.U. next year broke down when Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash rejected a U.N. power...
Members of Diversity in Education: Action Now! (DEAN), a recently-formed activist group, called on Summers to appoint a dean who supports affirmative action and diversity...