Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some ways, the Baird nomination was troubled from the start. The first indications from Bill and Hillary Clinton were that they wanted to appoint Vernon Jordan to the Attorney General's post. A flurry of press articles questioning Jordan's ties to a tobacco company, capped by a searing editorial in the New York Times, persuaded Jordan to remove his name from consideration. Aides then leaked word that Clinton sought a female appointee -- a move that in effect devalued the post to affirmative-action status...
Celebrity has its muscle in America, but politics has the power. Eddie Murphy can't drop a bomb, he can only make one. Steven Spielberg can beam E.T. home, but he can't run NASA. Superagent Mike Ovitz can't appoint a Supreme Court Justice (at least, we don't think he can). So the artists, most of them liberal Democrats, came to celebrate the politics of inclusion: after 12 years, or maybe 30, they were back on a party line to Washington clout...
What President-elect Clinton must do is to appoint Morgenthau as the nation's next drug czar--with only this one responsibility, but with broad authority: follow the bucks. Don't bother him with interdiction...
...codify the nation's guidelines. The project has been caught in a dispute between Yeltsin and the parliament over what kind of state structure to enshrine in the new basic law. Yeltsin wants a strong President, who will have a free hand to organize new government structures and appoint ministers. His whole approach is anathema to legislators who want to give parliament the power to control government appointments and to make the head of state a figurehead that Yeltsin supporters claim would be akin to the British Queen...
...still not clear how long Epps will retain his position as head of The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and the Office for Race Relations and Minority Affairs. His appointment was a stop-gap measure by the University in response to the conflicts on campus last spring. If the University wants to make any kind of commitment to furthering diversity and relations on campus, then it should make a long-term change in the structure of our race relations offices, and appoint a coordinator whose primary responsibility is to foster good relations on campus...