Word: assign
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...investigate for "possible violations of law" White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes, Hillary Clinton confidante Susan Thomases and Webster Hubbell, the former Associate Attorney General who is serving time for inflating billing records at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. And after briefly trying to assign the task to the FBI, Attorney General Janet Reno has asked Starr to investigate how the White House got hold of secret bureau files on officials of the Bush and Reagan administrations. Reno's pass to him undercuts Administration attempts to portray the special prosecutor as an unindicted co-conspirator...
...seemingly vital federal agency be so unprepared? For one thing, the FAA is financially strapped, and has lost 5,000 employees since 1993. It has a constant shortage of inspectors, and rather than inspecting, they must devote increasing amounts of time to clerical tasks. Moreover, the agency continues to assign inspectors according to the size of an airline rather than the number of subcontractors it uses. The agency says it will change the way it monitors outsourcing, requiring stricter supervision and compliance in the future. "The regulatory climate is going to be quite changed," says John Strong, co-author...
...said she will ask a special three-judge court to give Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr the authority to oversee that probe. White House press secretary Mike McCurry said the Administration would welcome an outside investigation, and hoped that it would "shut up" GOP critics. Reno's decision to assign an independent prosecutor will deflect GOP allegations that the White House is influencing the investigation, says TIME's Jay Carney. In addition, Starr, Reno's original choice for the job, seems to be the most logical choice, because it was his Travelgate inquiry which brought the mishandling of confidential...
...said she will ask a special three-judge court to give Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr the authority to oversee that probe. White House press secretary Mike McCurry said the Administration would welcome an outside investigation, and hoped that it would "shut up" GOP critics. Reno's decision to assign an independent prosecutor will deflect GOP allegations that the White House is influencing the investigation, says TIME's Jay Carney. In addition, Starr, Reno's original choice for the job, seems to be the most logical choice, because it was his Travelgate inquiry which brought the mishandling of confidential...
...said she will ask a special three-judge court to give Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr the authority to oversee that probe. White House press secretary Mike McCurry said the Administration would welcome an outside investigation, and hoped that it would "shut up" GOP critics. Reno's decision to assign an independent prosecutor will deflect GOP allegations that the White House is influencing the investigation, says TIME's Jay Carney. In addition, Starr, Reno's original choice for the job, seems to be the most logical choice, because it was his Travelgate inquiry which brought the mishandling of confidential...