Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have never had a single person either with me or on the telephone ask me not to appoint Dr. Harold Brown for Secretary of Defense," Jimmy Carter insisted last week. In the narrowest sense that was apparently true. But the statement ignored the fact that some of Washington's sharpest political and bureaucratic infighters were flashing their knives to influence the President-elect's most difficult remaining personnel decision: whether to appoint the Caltech president to the Pentagon post or give the job back to James Schlesinger, who had been abruptly dumped by President Gerald Ford for resisting...
...comparable with those wielded by the Speaker of the national House until they were so brutally abused by Joseph G. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon (TIME'S first cover subject, March 3, 1923) that they were drastically trimmed. In Boston, O'Neill exercised such powers as the right to appoint and dismiss committee chairmen-with less brutality but no less forcefulness...
President Bok sent letters to all department heads and deans requesting that they appoint fund soliciters from among their personnel. These soliciters, responsible for groups of 30 people, returned their peers' sealed envelopes to the fund director...
...Faculty fails to approve a proposed one-week shift in the calendar today, Dean Rosovsky will advise President Bok to appoint a faculty committee to recommend to Bok a "dictatorial calendar reform plan" for the whole University...
...uncertainty about the new Administration's attitudes toward business and economic policy added to pressures on Carter to move swiftly in lining up his full economic team. In a letter to the New York Times last week, Gabriel Hauge, chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., urged Carter to appoint officials quickly that had the confidence of businessmen, who have been wary about pursuing expansion plans. If Carter did so, Hauge argued, he might touch off a burst of spending that "could be worth $10 billion to $20 billion" in terms of economic growth by the time any policy action...