Word: appointing
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...last four unfilled Cabinet positions, Reagan confronted several requirements. He had to mollify two regions, the South and Midwest, which were not represented among his previous nominees to head departments. He had to appoint at least one nonwhite. And, perhaps most difficult of all, he had to find people who were willing to begin carrying out his plan to dismantle the Departments of Education and Energy-in effect, eventually to put themselves out of jobs. Reagan managed to fill three of the positions but not Education. At least three people were considered for the job, but apparently were not interested...
...next spring. Yet a relatively minor scandal has prompted the President to launch a war against journalists. They have responded with angry resistance, but the artillery at Giscard's command is formidable. The three French television channels and the national radio network are all state run. The government appoints their directors, who appoint their news editors, who make sure that little is broadcast that might displease Giscard. Lately the President has taken to referring to "my television," in the manner of Charles de Gaulle, who considered the French broadcasting industry to be his private preserve. Says French Press...
...chairman of the medical department at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) plans to step down from the post as soon as a search committee can appoint a successor...
...nomination was "held up by the Republicans in anticipation of a Reagan victory, and it looks like their strategy paid off, a source in the NRC, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday. "It looks like Reagan will appoint whomever he deems appropriate," the source said...
Although observes said they think Reagan will appoint a pro-nuclear Republican to the post, they agreed that his nominee would not be stridently pro-nuclear. A spokesman for the Reagan transition team said yesterday no action has been taken on finding a nominee...