Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...establishment of a bipartisan commission should have been uncontroversial. Indeed, though the idea originally came from Kirkpatrick, it was formally suggested by some influential Senators and Representatives. Clark, however, informed only a few members of Congress that Reagan was about to appoint the commission, and failed to consult with the Republican leadership on the people his National Security Council staff was proposing as commission members. Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee learned who would be on the commission from Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington, whom Clark did consult. "Talk about teed off!" says one White House staffer. "Baker...
...White House officials. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan has been the strongest critic of Volcker within the Administration, arguing that the Fed chairman was not arguing that the Fed chairman was not "irreplaceable." Regan did not think much more of Greenspan. At one point, in desperation, he said, "If they appoint Greenspan, they'll have to find themselves another Treasury Secretary." The Treasury Secretary put forward the name of Paul McCracken, 67, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the first Nixon Administration, as his candidate for the Fed job, and watched the idea sink before it got anywhere...
Hiatt said last night he would today appoint a three-person committee, chaired by SPH Dean of Students Marlene Y. MacLeish, to look into the matter...
...funds for the weapon, Republican Senators William Cohen of Maine and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire huddled with White House Aide Kenneth Duberstein in a nocturnal conclave in Vice President Bush's Capitol Hill office to figure out what to do next. The Senators urged the Administration to appoint a high-powered bipartisan study commission. "The MX will never fly if it is a Republican missile," explained Cohen. "It's got to be bipartisan...
...socially pertinent and meaningful non-documentary motion picture to emerge this year. What better way to pat oneself on the back than liberally to reward one's most socially responsible product? But in recognizing itself as a morally sound group, do the pundits, and beautiful people of the Academy appoint themselves as society's dictators of true intellectual value? Does Richard Attenborough, who reportedly devoted more than a decade to his brainchild, thus become the father of morality for his conscientious use of the celluloid...