Word: appointive
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...outstanding scholar and one of the leading law teachers in the country," Bell will "provide leadership and maintain the quality of the law program" at the Oregon Law School, Eugene F. Scoles, chairman of the committee to appoint the dean of the University of Oregon Law School, said yesterday...
...appears that despite a variety of appeals to morality, reason and institutional self-interest, the President of the University does indeed intend to appoint Arnold Harberger. Harberger tells us that he will not come to Harvard "under a cloud." We write to urge every student, faculty member, and other employees of the University who have any decency and self-respect to help turn the cloud into a full scale thunderstorm...
William Proxmire (D-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has proposed the Attorney General appoint a special prosecutor. We urge Benjamin Civiletti to reconsider his earlier rejection of this move. Only a special prosecutor can probe the past conduct and present candor of a Cabinet member without suspicion of political influence. President Carter's campaign literature trumpets his insistence "that everyone in government be held to the highest standards of ethics and accountability, with no exceptions." The Secretary of the Treasury should not be an exception...
...long-established Islamic Party: "A pure Islamic system was established 14 centuries ago, and any regime that differs from that ideal is unacceptable." At the end of the loquacious jirga, as such a gathering of tribes is called, the only agreement the squabbling chieftains could reach was to appoint a delegation of three elderly mullahs for a fund-raising journey to Saudi Arabia...
...History Department takes "more than a common interest in women candidates because we would like to appoint women," but to appoint to a woman on the basis of sex would create "second class citizens," MacCaffrey added...