Word: appointing
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Rudenstine said he has been consulting frequently with the deans of the various faculties and that his desire to appoint a provost by the end of February is "still a reasonable hope...
Tosteson invokes the Hippocratic injunction in an eloquent speech against violence, but instead of taking action to deter further incidents of this kind, he has decided to appoint an ad hoc faculty and student Committee on Racial and Ethnic Sensitivities which will study how other institutions have addressed similar problems...
...addition, Rudenstine plans to appoint an administrator to help update the University's computing networks, and he hopes to launch a broad review of undergraduate academic and residential life by late spring or early fall...
...Clinton personally last July charges that the Arkansas child- welfare system is riddled with abuse and neglect; children placed in foster care have been mistreated, and some have even died. The problems have been festering for at least a decade, but Clinton paid scant attention. Last summer he appointed a task force (quintessential Clinton: his first response to almost any hot problem is to appoint a task force or study commission), and since then he has been working to repair the system. He hopes to reach a settlement before the suit comes to trial, now scheduled for March, and plans...
...this is unnecessary, because Mr. Bush already has the power to appoint a domestic czar. But inasmuch as he chose Dan Quayle as the best possible candidate to lead America in his absence and Clarence Thomas as the most qualified man in America to sit on the Supreme Court, maybe it would be best if we left the choice to the voters...