Word: cabinet
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...country where capital is flying out of the country at hyper-speed and allegations of kickbacks and corruption permeate the government all the way to the office of President Boris Yeltsin. Those suspicions have led to speculation that Yeltsin's ongoing game of Whack-a-Mole with his cabinet is an attempt to ensure that a friendly, non-prosecutorial government will succeed him. So far, there are no allegations of wrongdoing by the Bank of New York, but the institution has suspended two executives believed to be connected to the case. One of them, Lucy Edwards, spoke at an international...
Nixon called a Cabinet meeting for that Tuesday, Aug. 6. Ford felt that the President was in fantasyland. There were demonstrators along Pennsylvania Avenue. The headlines screamed for Nixon's resignation. Nixon wanted to talk about inflation and the U.S. economy. Ford stared across the Cabinet table in wonder at this odd tableau. "The 'smoking gun' tape was out--the country was up in arms about it," recounted Ford. "Nixon was just plain out of touch, and his mind off there somewhere...
...Power Solutions reported that between July 28 and August 2 a black male, described as tall and missing a lot of teeth, entered the building and removed a red backpack and a Dell Latitude laptop computer valued at $2972. It was discovered that a lock on a file cabinet drawer was jimmied, but nothing to be appeared missing...
...year-old Holbrooke will have to use his new cabinet-level position to make a case for a more consistent foreign policy focus in the Clinton administration. "That?s a substantial challenge, since the President doesn?t pay much attention to foreign policy and Secretary of State Albright has been widely criticized for failing to develop a foreign policy driven by clear, long-term goals," says Dowell. "Ultimately, Holbrooke may -- like Albright herself -- use the posting as a springboard to the Secretary of State job if Gore wins...
...kicks in when, partly because of the intensity of White House media coverage, the incumbent begins to grate on your nerves. By the time George Bush the Elder left the White House, you were tired of him and tired of Kennebunkport and tired of all those numbingly respectable Cabinet officers who looked as if they'd all gone to Andover together. And you were sick to death of that wretched dog. You were starting to miss the buccaneering days of the Reagan Administration, during which TIME once devoted several pages to mug shots of all the Reagan officials...