Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never pursued a political career. He chose, instead, to pursue an academic career in history, his field of graduate study. He accepted professorships first at Princeton and then at Amherst before becoming Amherst's president in 1971. The 1978 bill creating the anti-corruption commission required that the governor appoint a college president as chairman; Ward admits that Amherst's prestige and its distance from the state capital made him a natural choice...
...Stanford Board of Trustees a few weeks ago agreed to appoint G.T. Management Ltd. as its international investment manager, and allotted $50 million to them to invest, the Stanford Daily reported...
Walter Jackson Bate'39, University Professor, concurred, saying one of Levin's main contributions was to appoint professors with "breadth and range" and "a broad sweep in the humanities...
...picked up the theme again last week, in a speech to business executives: "Voluntarism is an essential part of our plan to give Government back to the people. Let us go forth and say to the people: Join us in helping Americans help each other." Reagan said he would appoint a 35-member Presidential Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives...
...Kennedy School Students Association (KSSA), complaining about the small number of women and minority students, last December urged the administration to appoint a full-time recruiter. At that point, K-School officials refused, citing budget restraints...