Word: appointment
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...Then of course there was Janet Reno, now officially the most cautious human being on the planet. Perhaps fearful that the sky would fall on her head, Ms. Reno notched up a couple more missed opportunities to appoint an independent counsel in the campaign finance conundrum. What could the Justice chief be waiting for ? judgment...
...pressures on Arafat from outside were not enough, they coincide with the worst domestic scandal of his tenure as Palestinian Authority chief. Last Friday his entire Cabinet resigned after the elected Legislative Council voted to demand that he dissolve his government and appoint a new one within a month. In the past, Arafat has capriciously ignored the council's resolutions, but the charges of abuse of power are badly undercutting his credibility. Says an Arafat aide: "The resolution left Arafat armless. He can't confront the Israeli measures and policies with a corrupt administration and with no public support...
...Clinton's goals are vague, and so are the means he proposes for reaching them. The President will appoint a high-profile, seven-member advisory panel whose findings will be the basis of a report to be issued by the President in the summer of 1998. Clinton insists it will look well beyond what is currently known about race and its traditional black-white focus. "We know now from the population trends what we will look like 30 years from now. What we need to decide is what we're going to be like," he said. "We are a truly...
...proclivity of minority doctoral students is to pursue doctorates in fields like Afro-American Studies, Women's Studies or other fields not transferable to a majority of the Faculty positions in a liberal arts institution. The effective use of retirements to free FTUs to appoint more women and minorities is consequently limited by this mismatch and the illegality of forced retirement...
...minority and female Faculty members into its lecture halls is by making available more additional FTU, on a competitive basis among the various departments in FAS. One way in which this can be accomplished is for Harvard to increase the number of FTUs it gives to departments seeking to appoint minority or female professors from the one-half it presently gives, to one. This would relieve the departments' burden of producing a matching half...