Word: appointments
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...half-truths. You run risk of turning this into 'cover-up.' " - from a note that Stern wrote regarding the firing of the White House travel office staff, allegedly at the request of then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. Some people claimed that the employees were fired so that Hillary could appoint friends. (New York Times, January...
...9/11 attacks - to a group of 17 Uighur dissidents from China - who even the Pentagon says represent no threat to the U.S. President Obama wants a Cabinet-level committee to lead the reviews. A report by the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) recommends that the new President appoint a "panel of eminent Americans" to sort through the cases. Some human rights groups have suggested that the new Attorney General do the sorting...
Paterson has indicated that he will appoint a replacement for Clinton later this week...
...some ways, the most surprising of his appointments - Hillary Clinton, the new Secretary of State - has emerged as an exemplar of Obamism. At her confirmation hearing, Clinton seemed completely prepared on every imaginable topic, orderly, undramatic and yet willing to propose some radical changes in the State Department's structure. She seems intent on tilting the department away from its stultifying bureaucratic orthodoxies and toward solving specific problems. To do so, she will appoint no fewer than five, and perhaps more, high-profile special envoys who will do the heavy lifting and share her spotlight on the most vexing foreign...
...Monday, Indian newspapers reported that the board may appoint investment banks to explore the possibility of finding a buyer for Satyam. Since then, board member Tarun Das has said the company was approached by a potential buyer. Board members insist the company has solid cash flow and can continue. Yet with fresh revelations about Raju's alleged malfeasance surfacing every day - the latest, that he deleted all his e-mails from his final month as CEO - there are fears that the company's liabilities may be so high that it may be forced to fold...