Word: appointing
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...Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the Carolinas. North Carolina's other Senator, Democrat JOHN EDWARDS, opposes Boyle, but Edwards is holding off blocking the nomination to see if he can strike a deal with the White House. Edwards wants Bush to appoint another North Carolinian to the Fourth Circuit, state appeals court Judge JAMES A. WYNN, an African American whom Helms has blocked in the past. If they agree to a trade, Bush and Edwards will have to overcome one other hurdle: Helms. He's told North Carolina reporters that...
...Undergraduate Council’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC) voted to appoint McKean and Milikowsky to the 20-person committee, which will consist of faculty, administrators and students. They were selected over 19 other student applicants...
...council's Student Affairs Committee (SAC) will be accepting applications this week from any undergraduates who wish to apply to be on the committee. Then SAC--in accordance with the council's constitution with regard to appointments--will vote to appoint two of the applicants. SAC's choices will be voted upon by the council at large in a confirmation hearing scheduled for May 16th...
...other words, he isn't likely to turn Japan upside down. True, he did appoint a Cabinet that is younger and includes more women and more non-politicians than usual--notably Japan's first female Foreign Minister, Makiko Tanaka. But it's hard to find a clear pattern: one of his economic advisers favors corporate restructuring and repairing the banking system; another leans to traditional pork-barrel politics. Koizumi's immediate problem is that dramatic reforms take time to implement, and the Japanese public that adores him today will turn on him tomorrow if he doesn't produce results...
...goes a long way towards addressing protestors’ concerns about a “democratic deficit” in the decision-making process. Of course, members of the business community should not be the only ones deciding what constitutes a restrictive trade practice—member governments should appoint impartial arbiters to decision-making panels, and conflicts of interest should be strenuously avoided...