Word: cabineteer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Albright took over the presidency of the Center for National Policy. Robert Rubin '60, Warren Christopher and Mickey Kantor--all of whom would later serve in President Clinton's Cabinet--were among the members of the center's board. In that position, she prodded researchers to ground their analysis by using polls and opinion surveys to gauge domestic reaction...
...mounted a podium inside a mosque. In the election campaign that began four weeks ago, Mohammed Khatami was a sensation. Surveys showed his support climbing from 13.9% to 20.2% to 52% on election eve. On Saturday, the reluctant candidate, who was once hounded out of the Iranian Cabinet by fellow clerics, handed the conservative theocracy a stunning upset. The moderate won 69.7% of the 29.7 million votes cast...
...grin and a scholar who has worked in the West and is said to be at home in English, German and Arabic. That's quite a contrast to the severe and sober ayatullahs who have governed since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Five years ago, they drove Khatami from his Cabinet post as Minister of Culture, accusing him of allowing an "invasion" of decadent ideas from the U.S. and Europe. When the elections came due, the ruling mullahs thought so little of Khatami's popular appeal that they allowed him and two others to run as officially sanctioned candidates against Nateq...
...your name that chased out Mobutu, it also will chase out Kabila," chanted supporters of longtime democratic opposition leader Etienne Tsisekedi, who, twice ousted as prime minister under Mobutu, had hoped to be named to the post again under Kabila. Fat chance. A partial list of 13 Cabinet appointments unveiled Friday reads like a Who's Who of Kabila's Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo. Although two posts were granted to Tsisekedi's party, the outspoken Mobutu critic was left out. Huffed a humiliated Tsisekedi: "For me, he is not the president." Meanwhile, the "candidate...
...reached America in 1774 but whose celebrated furniture attained its apogee of design between 1820 and 1850. "Hands to work," said a Shaker motto, "hearts to God." Work was prayer, and nothing "worldly," meaning ostentatious or decorative, was allowed, beyond a discreet molding to the top of a cabinet or an elegant taper to a turned...