Word: cabinets
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Although our current president and vice president are both male, in the past five years, three presidents, three vice presidents and three treasurers have been female. The current Steering Committee consists of seven women and six men and the Cabinet, who are the leaders of the programs, consists of 49 women...
Ronald Reagan, self-proclaimed enemy of Washington's bloated bureaucracy, came into office eight years ago vowing to dismantle Jimmy Carter's two additions to the Cabinet, the departments of Education and Energy. He has not only failed to scale back the Cabinet, but is also on the verge of expanding it. This week the President is expected to sign legislation elevating the Veterans Administration to a Cabinet-level department. That will bring the number of Cabinet departments...
There was an election year timeliness to Reagan's turnaround and Congress's overwhelming support for the new Cabinet post. In their frenzy to appeal to 27.5 million U.S. veterans, the politicians seem unconcerned that the cost of transforming the V.A. into a Cabinet department will be $9.9 million. The biggest chunk of that cost will go to changing signs on the 532 V.A. buildings...
...posed a threat to the viability of the regimes themselves. But the winds of the Gorbachev revolution have shaken Czechoslovakia and Poland. In Prague last week, Communist Party Leader Milos Jakes fired Lubomir Strougal, the country's Prime Minister for 18 years, and his entire 22-member Cabinet. Strougal's problem: sympathy for perestroika...
...Poland newly installed Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski took a different approach. As the government continued the daunting task of reaching a compromise with the leadership of Solidarity, the banned trade union, Rakowski invited four independent and opposition figures to join his Cabinet last week. Though all four rebuffed him, Rakowski promised to hold the seats open in case they changed their minds. As he admitted to TIME last week, "Our centralized system for decades has limited individuals' abilities to adapt, to take initiatives. We have to get rid of all those blockages...