Word: appointing
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Rostow had other problems with the White House. It undercut his attempt to appoint the man he wanted as his deputy, Robert Grey, a career State Department official, choosing to give in to the challenge of a few conservative Republican Senators, including North Carolina's Jesse Helms. Reagan, in fact, finally dropped Grey's name from consideration. White House aides leaked word that this was really a ploy to get Rostow angry enough to quit. They maintained that Rostow treated the President with professorial condescension, was too prickly to deal with and offered his opinions on matters beyond...
...which low-bidding private lawyers sign on to defend indigents. The result: more plea bargaining, fewer pretrial motions and less investigative work. In rural Alabama, poor defendants routinely get no lawyer at all in misdemeanor cases. Confesses one judge in Tuskegee, Ala., who is among those who do not appoint counsel: "I'm afraid I'm in violation...
...government like Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, 74, and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 73, as well as key functionaries in the party bureaucracy such as Konstantin Chernenko, 71, and a handful of republic and urban party leaders like Moscow Boss Viktor Grishin, 68. The new General Secretary will have to appoint known loyalists if he hopes to prevail in Politburo debate...
Another compelling reason to vote Moffett is the possibility his election will give Democrats control of the Senator. They need a net gain of five seats to be able to appoint and chair committees now run by Republicans. A Moffett victory could mean a judiciary Committee headed by Ted Kennedy instead of Strom Thurmond, and a more visible senator in a Democratic party that sorely needs new leaders...
...Whomever we would appoint would assume a permanent responsibility for supervising the Women's Studies Program," said David Herlihy. Henry Charles Professor of Medieval History and a committee member...