Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee which Tosteson will probably appoint sometime in the next week will review the situation of four Harvard-affiliated doctors who wrote letters of recommendation for Hussain, failing to mention that he had been convicted of simple rape only a few weeks before...
...would use "any means necessary to defend socialism." The Central Committee seemed ready, however, to offer two concessions: 1) the state would be prepared to select directors from lists of candidates submitted by workers' councils; and 2) the workers' councils of "smaller enterprises" might be permitted to appoint their directors without interference. If the government were willing to extend the latter principle to all but perhaps 200 of the larger or more politically sensitive enterprises, a compromise with Solidarity might be possible...
Behind the scenes, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker worked to keep Goldwater's committee from appearing to lynch Casey first and give him a hearing later. While publicly supporting Goldwater, Baker urged him to appoint Fred D. Thompson, a longtime friend from Tennessee who was Republican counsel in the Senate's Watergate investigation, as chief counsel in the Casey probe. Thompson accepted the post, promising a prompt but careful study. Casey supplied the committee with volumes of documents and demanded a quick hearing...
...main difficulty, most female attorneys agree, is that the boom in women law graduates has essentially come about since 1970, when women accounted for only 2.8% of the profession. Thus there has not been enough time to yield a sufficient pool of experienced practitioners. "You can't appoint women judges if you don't have a large number of women lawyers who are trained," says Carla Hills, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Ford. Until 1977, only ten women had been named to the federal bench. During the Carter Administration, partly because of the establishment...
DECENTRALIZATION. Mauroy confirmed that the government would dismantle the Napoleonic system of having the Minister of the Interior appoint the administrators of France's 95 regional governments. They would be replaced by locally elected assemblies...