Word: appointing
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...earlier days, administrators might have answered that there was, in fact, no place for Lee. But incoming Chair Gates and outgoing Chair Barbara Johnson have made creative use of Harvard's ability to appoint visiting lecturers. The result: a guest stint by Lee that will give the moribund department a dynamic lift and could well inspire other scholars to check out Harvard's Afro-Am--and maybe even to accept tenure here...
Healy said he is optimistic that he will be able to "make a decision and appoint a commissioner within a week." The City Council created the position in 1977 in response to concerns about the police department's ineffectual relationship with the community, but funding for the post has not been available until...
...particularly while we are engaged in combat," says Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, "to reverse our long-standing policy that single parents and military couples are fully deployable and available for assignment anywhere in the world." To make sure that children are not simply abandoned, the Pentagon insists that parents appoint a guardian for them. Each service also operates a family-support network that includes counseling for custodians and the children. But there are no special exemptions from war-zone service for military couples or single parents...
...pair of panels interviewed candidates vying to become Cambridge's first-ever police commissioner last weekend, prompting City Manager Robert W. Healy to say he would appoint someone to the post by the end of the month...
...opening at the Ed School may be the next president's first opportunity to appoint a graduate school dean. And observers say that the changing role of education schools will make the appointment one of the president's priorities...