Word: appointing
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When people "don't really want to do anything serious [they] appoint a commission to study the problem," McCarthy said...
Alarmists in the newsroom feared that Willes, an economist by training, might appoint himself editor. Instead he anointed the respected (and reassuringly rumpled) Michael Parks, the paper's 53-year-old managing editor (and a Pulitzer-prizewinning foreign correspondent). Coffey tried to put on a good face, saying he needed "a breather" after an eight-year run that included the O.J. Simpson trial, fires, floods, racial tensions inside and outside the newsroom--and four Pulitzers. But his goodbye statement spoke volumes: "There's a season for everything," he said, "and mine here has ended--happily, proudly, in midstride...
Whether or not there is evidence of wrongdoing on the videotapes, their belated discovery is certain to anger top federal investigators, who were unaware that the tapes existed at all, and will add to the pressure on Reno to appoint an independent counsel. All materials related to the coffees, which would seem implicitly to include any videotapes of the events, were subpoenaed earlier this year by the Justice Department and two congressional panels. The tapes represent the first major batch of new material released by the White House to investigators since the spring...
...therapies. In 1980, Derek Humphry founded the Hemlock Society, the largest international public advocacy group lobbying for a competent, terminally ill individual's right to physician aid-in-dying. In 1990, the Supreme Court affirmed a constitutional right to refuse unwanted medical treatment, including food and fluids, and to appoint a health care surrogate decision-maker. These milestones demonstrate the concerted policy shift towards patient autonomy and patient-centered care...
...battered, isolated Reno, all of this means a collision course with a President who brought her to Washington, then kept her at arm's length. Ever since April, when she declined a Republican request to appoint an independent prosecutor, she has lived and worked under a question: Was she merely protecting the President? By last week some Republicans in Congress were even suggesting that she should be impeached for not naming one. This kind of attention has been hard for Reno, who is so touchy about ethical appearances that she bought her car at list price so no one could...