Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proud of what they had done, and now that they had been caught, promised never to do it again. It was as if they had come to believe the headlines that implied someone might soon be going to jail, that Attorney General Janet Reno had no choice but to appoint an independent counsel...
...days Reno had been meeting privately with her top lawyers to figure out if she had grounds to appoint an independent counsel. The fact that everyone from editorial-page editors to Trent Lott to Common Cause reformers was hollering for one meant little to her. Reno's critics were reading the independent-counsel statute; she was reading the criminal code. And she saw a big, fat exception to the law making it a crime to raise money on federal property. The loophole opened in 1979, when Congress inadvertently tightened the definition of "contribution" from money donated for "any political purpose...
...sort of praise due a network-news titan, TIME has learned that the executive shift was accompanied by considerable angst. Arledge's contract includes a clause that allows his network bosses, if they wish, to move him this June into the largely ceremonial position of chairman and to appoint a new president who would not report to Arledge. But when Robert Iger, president of ABC Inc., decided he wanted to make such a change, Arledge fought it, arguing that he was still at the top of his game. By some accounts, Michael Eisner, chairman of ABC's parent Walt Disney...
...called upon the Clinton administration to appoint a special representative to East Timor, but acknowledged that "[The Clinton] administration has done more than any other previous administration or any other country" for the East Timorese...
City Manager Robert Healy, who makes the final appointments, is bound by law to appoint one of the committee's three recommendations, Trumball said...