Word: appointing
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Only the dean of the Faculty has power to appoint the GSAS dean, although he first vets potential candidates with faculty members—and especially with the Faculty Council, the 18-member governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Sociology Department Chair Mary C. Waters, a long-time friend of Skocpol, praised Kirby’s decision to appoint Skocpol...
...They won't get any help from us-none. We busted our hump to get a President who would appoint judges who would be more just. Republican Senators betrayed...
...Kuwaiti reform lament that the country will soon lose its traditions. "This vote is against the will of the Kuwaiti people. It aims at changing the identity of the society," said Waleed al-Tabtabai, a parliamentarian strongly opposed to the law. Al-Sabah has indicated that he will appoint women to his cabinet, and Kuwaiti activists are pressing for more reforms to ensure women get a fair deal in parliamentary elections scheduled for 2007. Campaigners fear that conservatives in the parliament could still push through legislation to force women running for office to wear the veil. Still, they acknowledge they...
...What message are we sending [when] we have sought to appoint an ambassador to the United Nations who himself has been accused of being arrogant, of not listening to his friends, of acting unilaterally, of bullying those who do not have the ability to properly defend themselves?" GEORGE VOINOVICH, pivotal Ohio Republican Senator on the U.S. Foreign Relations Committee, explaining why he objected to the nomination of John R. Bolton for ambassador to the U.N. He nonetheless let it move to the full Senate...