Word: appointing
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...change from department to committee could have meant the loss of autonomous powers such as the ability to appoint professors, offer courses, and have a graduate program...
...Divisional" model would constitute a more extensive restructuring of the administration of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It is proposed that the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science appoint three or four "Area Academic Deans," to serve part-time for about five years and have as their responsibilities the thorough understanding of academic concerns in broad academic disciplinary areas...
...Clinton Administration got what it needed least: the beginnings of another probe by a special prosecutor. Attorney General Janet Reno asked a Washington federal appeals court to appoint an independent counsel to investigate allegations that Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy improperly accepted travel and entertainment gifts from Tyson Foods, Inc., the Arkansas poultry firm with ties to the Clintons. Espy denied any wrongdoing...
With the leadership of Benjamin Chavis now in its past, the N.A.A.C.P. is expected to appoint a search committee to look for a new executive director within days. One of the names likely to be in the hat for chief exec: Jesse Jackson, who had sought the position before it was given to Chavis. Last Saturday the N.A.A.C.P. board voted overwhelmingly to fire Chavis because he had settled a sexual harassment suit with money from the organization's budget; it then appointed an interim administrator. Sources tell TIME that all senior officials Chavis brought with him have been placed...
Even so, both the White House and Congress may soon appoint panels to look deep into the workings of the intelligence community. "This could lead to dramatic changes," says a member of the President's foreign intelligence advisory board, a group of White House appointees chaired by former Defense Secretary Les Aspin. President Clinton is expected to assign the 12-member panel in early August to evaluate the spy process from top to bottom. Yet that plan doesn't please John Warner of Virginia, the senior G.O.P. member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who wants an outside group...