Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LoPresti has consistently opposed changes to the existing system, which allows Bulger to kill any bill be opposes, to appoint all committee chairmen, to hold all-night meetings in which dubious laws are passed, and to punish senators who are not loyal...
...LoPresti has consistently opposed changes to the existing system, which allows Bulger to kill any bill he opposes, to appoint all committee chairmen, to hold all-night meetings in which dubious laws are passed, and to punish senators who are not loyal...
...midst of the furor over the exclusion of American reporters from the military operation in Grenada last fall, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger appointed a 14-member panel to draft guidelines for press access to future combat situations. Chaired by retired Army Major General Winant Sidle, the commission consisted of journalists and military public information officers. Last week Weinberger released their report and announced that the proposed guidelines are being put into effect. He also said he will appoint a permanent panel of journalists to assist in planning for news coverage of future military conflicts. Said he: "By forming such...
...gauge of last week's preconvention maneuverings, the rallying cry of the present is "Rightward ho!" The conservative wing of the party prevailed on virtually all of the relatively few platform contests, including a call to appoint only opponents of abortion to the federal bench, a rejection of the Equal Rights Amendment and support of voluntary school prayer. Gloated North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, who fought unsuccessfully for conservative stands at previous G.O.P. conventions: "Tom Sawyer found someone else to paint the fence...
...when the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released two letters written by its black chairman, Clarence Pendleton Jr., to Reagan, criticizing the President for doing too much to help minorities. Among the actions that Pendleton protested: holding a White House luncheon for Administration blacks. Wrote he: "You did not appoint people by color or gender. Why convene them for [that] reason?" He also chided Reagan for supporting "set-aside" programs that favor minority contractors...