Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CINCINNATI: Bob Dole just won't stop talking about Colin Powell. Hoping to invigorate his flagging campaign by association with the one man who still causes the Clinton campaign to worry, the GOP candidate hinted again to reporters that if the Republicans win, Powell would join his Cabinet in a star position. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs did join Dole at a political rally in Cincinnati Thursday. Although he praised Dole's war experience and foreign policy acumen, Powell would not address rumors that he would accept a post as Secretary of State in a Dole Administration. "Still...
...ever understand how this works gets to be President." Ross Perot, take note: "One of the strictest rules is that all dark horses running for President must be people." As for the President's constitutional powers, "the President has the power to appoint and disappoint the members of his cabinet." And the rest of us too. But we keep hoping. -->
...reportage and propaganda that reaches us also glosses over the fact that not only did Palestinian leaders fail to discourage violent activity (Palestinian Cabinet Minister Hanan Ashrawi was even quoted in the Boston Globe as saying that "it would be impossible and irresponsible" to call on demonstrators to stop throwing stones and shooting at Israelis), but Palestinian police, who are supposed to be under the control of the civilian authority and thus at least nominally in the position of enforcing the peace, were also taking aim at Israeli soldiers. What can we make of that...
...book after the Star recorded his unfortunate foot fault. So do newspaper barons whose tabloids milked the Morris case for thousands of headlines, none of which, I feel compelled to point out, matched the one a London tabloid used several years ago to announce the sacking of a British Cabinet minister who, it was revealed, had similar sexual tastes...
...used to have one desk for each program," says Han. "Now we're down to one file cabinet per program...