Word: appointing
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Leave it to Ronald Reagan to appoint Mark Fowler chairman of the FCC [Nov. 21]. With his goal of stripping away regulations and safeguards, Fowler typifies the Reagan Administration's mercenary sensibilities...
...other business, the council approved a resolution changing the election process for vacated seats. The amendments to the bylaws will allow the representatives from the district and the district's house committee chairman to appoint a successor until midterm elections are held at the end of the fall semester. Under the previous by-laws, a special election--administered by the council's vice-chair--filled each vacancy as it occurred...
Building on this significant tradition. HGSE faculty agreed this year to appoint a new faculty member to augment our present resources so that we can develop one-year program on technology and education. The intent of the program is to prepare persons to work in school systems and help the schools make intelligent use of the plethora of new hardware and software currently being offered to them. Expertise, particularly intelligent skepticism about the new technologies, is in short supply, and we hope that such a program will both attract good students and be useful to them...
Pondering the matter over the weekend at Camp David, Reagan reached his decision. He told aides that he planned to appoint McFarlane. But he intended to delay the formal announcement until early this week, giving him time to confer with Kirkpatrick, who is known to be weary with her U.N. job. The President was set to offer her a post in Washington, possibly a newly created one, in which she would have ready access to the Oval Office and the opportunity to advise on a wide range of foreign policy questions...
...solution turned out to be the classic one: appoint a commission to study the dispute. Beirut Radio announced that a steering committee representing the country's sparring groups would meet this week to pave the way for the promised discussions on a fairer division of national power. The compromise came about after a meeting in New York City between Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal...