Word: appointment
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...pilot program is successful, the resolution calls for the University to appoint a recycling liaison who would work with the council and the EAC to facilitate and coordinate a campus-wide recycling program...
...name just two, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and his successor, Neville Chamberlain. Indeed, Nazi moles would not have dared to undermine Britain's defenses, diplomatic as well as military, as blatantly as did those two ambitious bumblers. After Hitler marched into the Rhineland in 1936, Baldwin rejected pressure to appoint Churchill as Minister of Defense with the compelling logic that "if I pick Winston, Hitler will be cross." In 1938, after meeting the Fuhrer, the deluded Chamberlain could say, "I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word...
...response was unlikely to mollify congressional critics like Ohio Democratic Senator John Glenn, who sponsored a proposal to appoint a civilian panel to oversee safety at DOE facilities. A watered-down version has become law, but it allows DOE leeway to monitor the network. "There is no evidence the DOE can police itself," says Michael Clark, president of the Environmental Policy Institute in Washington. The agency's weapons-production personnel, he adds, "are a rogue bureaucracy that is out of control...
President Reagan, during his eight years in office, has appointed a huge number of conservative judges to the federal bench. Conservative judges on the district and appellate levels will likely support the executive in cases on foreign policy power. Likewise the Supreme Court, which will make the final decision. With three conservative Reagan appointees, the Court may already favor the presidential arguments over the congressional, and if a President Bush gets to appoint another conservative justice, it most certainly will...
According to Dennis, 80 to 90 percent of all new jobs will go to women and minorities by the year 2000. In addition, she says, there will be pressure on the next president to appoint more women and minorities to government positions because of the increasing number of both in the work force...