Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...draw an impressive and diverse array of pressure groups into its tent, as well as Al Gore, Janet Reno (both originally scheduled to speak on the day she was to announce whether he would be saddled with an independent prosecutor, much to the press's interest), sundry lesser Cabinet members, Congresspeople, lobbyists, academics and law-enforcement officials. All were united by a single goal: a genuine--if also, in many cases, self-interested--desire to protect kids. Missing were the kind of sparks you'd expect when, say, representatives of the American Library Association share a drafty hotel ballroom with...
Stewart has been a dedicated representative of the council since she began serving next year. And if one of the council's biggest problems is money, her experience as treasurer in the current cabinet will be invaluable in the upcoming term...
...implement the agreement with Aziz on all "sensitive sites," a plan he outlined in writing to the Security Council. First, he said, the inspectors would seal the entrances and exits of the palace or building and put a helicopter overhead to keep watch. Then they would summon a Cabinet-level Iraqi official to the scene. That would be done, Ekeus says, to prevent the Iraqis from claiming that inspectors were kept out of the site by uninformed, low-level military people. Then the inspectors were to go in, first with a team of four, look at everything, and call...
...mostly saw the inside of a file cabinet. "I was filing papers all day--eight hours--for free," says Mullins. "Do you know how boring that is? And I couldn't get a job because I had to get my hours. I had no money...
...anniversary celebrations signal a dramatic change in strategy for the royal family? No. It has been evolving in the direction of more openness for years. Indeed, the Queen invented the "walkabout" early in her reign, and she sees more ordinary people on a regular basis than do most Cabinet ministers and newspaper editors. In 1992 she began paying taxes and reduced the number of royals who receive state funds (and the annus horribilis speech itself was a notable instance of candor). Nevertheless, the election of Blair and the death of Diana have intensified the process of bringing the royals closer...