Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning of this semester, Law School students and faculty were waiting to see how Dean Robert C. Clark would deal with residual tensions from last spring's tumultuous diversity controversy. Clark's tactics were to make an official statement of conciliation and to appoint Fisher to head a "Community Building Project...
...federal agencies and the Red Cross, it was never meant to be a disaster-response team. One scathing congressional report notes that the agency is widely viewed as a political dumping ground, "a turkey farm if you will." Bush left the agency politically orphaned when he failed to appoint a new director for almost a year after his 1988 election. During that time survivors of Hurricane Hugo and the San Francisco earthquake blasted the agency for arriving late and gumming up assistance efforts with red tape...
Clinton, for his part, turned down an invitation to the Dallas meeting. Having promised to appoint pro-choice jurists and to extend civil rights protection to homosexuals, he knows he cannot expect to pass the religious right's moral checkup. Still, Clinton hopes to recapture a respectable number of rank-and-file evangelicals, some of whom are more moderate than their leaders. Baptist Press, a news service for the Southern Baptist Convention's newspapers, last month distributed a long story describing the Clintons' and Gores' religious practices. While the candidates did not come across as quite the Sunday school teacher...
...City Council has the power to appoint theCity Clerk, the City Manager and the CityAssessor
...women -- a minority roughly as numerous as blacks or Hispanics, four times as numerous as Jews. It brought frank, nonjudgmental discussion of their lovemaking, including anatomical mechanics, into the nation's newspapers and even some of its classrooms. The epidemic helped prompt big-city mayors and police departments to appoint liaisons to their gay communities. It opened the doors of charities and foundations, of newspaper and TV editors, even of Governors and Congress members, to leaders of gay organizations that previously had not been taken seriously -- or that, in many cases, had not even existed...