Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rudman goes back to 1974, when, in a dispute over the results of the election that first sent Durkin to the Senate, Attorney General Rudman, a member of the state ballet commission, ruled against him. Durkin won the rematch with little trouble. In 1976 Gerald R. Ford wanted to appoint Rudman chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, but the Senate never considered the nomination. New Hampshire Republicans remain convinced that Durkin, despite his repeated denials, prevented the nomination from proceeding...
...Republican party supports equal rights," Anne Wexler, a special assistant to Carter, asks, "why isn't it in their platform?" Incredulity is mixed with general fear; they know that anti-ERA support and the Right to Life movement run deep. While they ridicule measures like Reagan's promise to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court, they privately fear the worst. And they desperately hope that the important issues--overt social and economic discrimination (women still earn only 59 cents for every man's dollar)--will get lost in the shuffle...
...Judging Reagan's Judges" recites the fears of prominent attorneys who are leaders in the civil rights movement and other liberal causes that if Reagan is elected he would appoint federal judges with a "monolithic right-wing ideology." Actually, it isn't so much that liberals disagree with other points of view; mostly, they are shocked to learn that there are other points of view...
Cunningham, said however that Carter's efforts "were not enough," adding that Anderson will appoint more women to top executive posts. "Anderson will not spend first four years doing what he feels necessary to elect him for another four years," she said...
Given the ugly fall-out from the Andrew Young resignation, the confrontation in Crown Heights (Brooklyn) and the controversy over the attempt to appoint Professor Levine to the Afro-American Studies Department last spring, I would think that the CRIMSON would be more careful in this area. David L. Evans Senior Admissions Officer