Word: casts
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...executive team that President-elect George Bush is assembling is starting to look like the cast of a movie: Return of the Republican Retreads. Despite Bush's pledge to name a diverse Cabinet of "fresh faces" in which women and minorities would be strongly represented, his selections so far have come from a narrow field. Of the 15 Cabinet officers and senior officials he had chosen through last week, twelve were either holdovers from the Reagan Administration or people who served under Gerald Ford...
...much as he enjoys the services of Bourbeau and MacDonald, Cleary knows his team would not be blowing out its opponents without a fine supporting cast...
Many State Department officials, eager to distance themselves from what they regarded as a peevish stance, characterized Shultz's no to Arafat as a "personal decision." They were worried that it would undermine the peace efforts of moderate Arabs and cast doubt on the U.S. commitment to a negotiated settlement in the Middle East. They also fretted that the Shultz rejection made a mockery of America's commitment to free speech and jeopardized the Reagan Administration's recently improved relationship with the U.N. Nonetheless, both Reagan and President-elect George Bush supported the decision, although Bush made it clear that...
...cutting edge in their prime, Ms. and Mother Jones hope to cast off their images as vestiges of a bygone time and appeal to a broader audience...
...intifadeh, pressure from Muslims and Jews, and fears of emigration and community decline cast a pall on celebrations by Christians in the Holy Land...