Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government spending, yet he spent each campaign appearance tossing out pork barrel projects as if he were Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. He debased himself at the feet of his ex-Secretary of State, pledging to keep Jim Baker at the State Department, but then promising to appoint him Domestic Policy Czar and later Chief of Staff. Heck, to win the Catholic vote, Bush would have appointed Baker pope, but the job was already filled...
...Oakland, Japanese by Spring casts Benjamin "Chappie" Puttbutt as an ambitious Black junior professor at predominately white Jack London College, where he kowtows to white colleagues and a neo-nazi student body as a means of courting a tenured appointment in the Humanities department. When the news breaks that the coveted position has been granted to radical feminist April Jokujoku, Puttbutt reconsiders his politics, digging out paraphernalia from his Blank Panther days at the Air Force Academy. Puttbutt's shift in perspective coincides with the buying out of Jack London College by Japanese investors who rewrite the cirriculum and appoint...
...federal government may appoint a "full time general" to oversee and coordinate its war on AIDS if a bill introduced in January becomes law, according to Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass...
...Harbour, Florida, Reich repledged Bill Clinton's support for a law to prohibit employers from hiring permanent replacements for striking workers (the certainty of a George Bush veto long kept the Democratic majorities in Congress from even trying to pass such a law). Further, said Reich, Clinton will appoint a special commission to recommend other ways to equalize the power of unions and companies, both by administrative action and by rewriting basic labor law. The labor federation promptly reciprocated by pledging support for Clinton's deficit-cutting program...
Signatories agree to replace the lighting of 90 percent of their lighted space, if two conditions are met: the lighting upgrade is profitable, and the quality of lighting is either met or improved. Participants also agree to appoint a manager who oversees participation in the program...