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...sides began to form--primarily between the liberal Cambridge Civic Association and the conservative Independent slate, with some noise from the radical Grass Roots Organization--it became apparent that the CCA slate was being hurt as much by the incumbent CCA majority council's failure to appoint a new city manager and the inordinate amount of time it took to reach any decision at all on the matter, as by the internal political splits which resulted in the formation of the GRO with Saundra Graham at the head of its slate...
What could well be Rosovsky's most important announcement of the year came on a snowy night in February at a Lowell House dinner, where he happened to mention that he will appoint a committee to prepare a report evaluating undergraduate education...
...months later President Bok used this opening to appoint a new committee to take over the planning of the Institute. Bok named Walter Leonard as the committee's chairman, and asked Guinier to serve as one of its seven members. Despite speculation that he would refuse the appointment, Guinier attended all of the committee's meetings...
Indeed, he considered it more a clumsy attempt at flattery by the President, who privately bragged to top aides that he had Petersen "on a short leash," than an actual job offer. Later Nixon appoint ed Clarence Kelley as permanent successor to the late J. Edgar Hoover...
...similar crisis developed in Britain in 1911 after the House of Lords summarily vetoed the domestic reforms of Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. The constitutional confrontation was resolved when King George V, fearing a fatal blow to British democracy from the House of Lords, threatened to appoint enough new Lords to give Asquith a majority. The Lords gave in to the King's pressure, and since then the power of the House of Commons has never been seriously questioned...