Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five-member police commission has insisted that it will exercise its right to review departmental decisions on complaints against police and to appoint an independent special hearing officer in particularly sensitive cases. Concedes a member of the police commission: "There is apprehension among blacks about confrontations with the police. Within some segments of the black community, the hostility is as great now as it has ever been...
Defending his choice at a Lowell House dinner in late February, Bok said he would appoint a Nazi to an academic position at Harvard if he were qualified...
Rosovsky also decided to appoint an acting Social Studies chairman for a year until questions about the nature of that position and about the concentration's structure are resolved...
...Beheshti and his clerical comrades on the Revolutionary Council correctly read Khomeini's mood and blocked the President's attempts to appoint a Prime Minister. Declared Beheshti haughtily: "The difficulty is that once a Prime Minister is approved by the Imam, then the Majlis [National Assembly] won't be able to vote freely on his appointment." Adding to his humiliation, Banisadr last week lost a lesser battle against Ayatullah Sadegh Khalkhali, an Islamic judge who had sentenced more than 100 Kurdish rebels and officials of the Pahlavi regime to death. When Banisadr denied Khalkhali's right...
After deposing Binaisa, the commission announced its intention to appoint a junta of at least four members to run the country until the next election, which it promised to try to hold before the end of September. "Corruption is the hallmark of the Binaisa government," a commission message said by way of explanation for the coup...