Word: appointing
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Take the explosive controversy over Harvard's Afro-American Studies department, which, because of faculty departures, has been left with only one tenured professor. During a meeting with students in October (that Bok arranged), the administration rejected the unrealistic demands of Afro-Am concentrators that the University appoint six faculty by February...
...upper house, and they grabbed a record number of seats. Prime Minister Sousuke Uno resigned in disgrace after a former geisha he had patronized broke her profession's code of silence to denounce him as too small-minded a man to lead the country. His successor rushed to appoint two women to his Cabinet. The press seized upon the opportunity to rave about the dawning of Onna no Jidai (the Era of Women...
...letter, the former dean also charged that there was a "strained relationships between students and administration" on campus. He also said that Brandeis needed to appoint a minority to the Board of Trustees...
...Chicago, for example, Operation PUSH--Jackson's old civil rights organization--is busy organizing a boycott of Nike shoes because of that company's failure to appoint a Black to its board of directors. Seriously folks, the closest relationship between Nike and the problems of the underclass is the alarming frequency with which young teens are shot and stabbed for a $125 pair of Air Jordans...
...handling" was even higher. Bush thinks of himself as resistant to manipulation of any kind, and Darman had been perceived as one of Reagan's dexterous puppeteers. But heavy lobbying by James Baker, who with Darman formed an inseparable duo in the early Reagan years, eventually persuaded Bush to appoint Darman Budget Director. "When we went to see Bush about the OMB job," said Craig Fuller, Bush's transition co-director, "we only took one name...