Word: elected
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...have to give them a sense that you're capable of doing the job," he adds. "This is a political world, and that includes the factor of elect ability...
...commission found that the Israeli Defense Force (IDF)--which entered West Beirut to "maintain the peace" after the assasination of Christian President-elect Bashir Gemayel--erred dramatically on two counts. The force ordered the Christian Phalangists into the camps without taking into account their history of violent excesses and desire for vengeance. And once the slaughter was underway, the Israeli soldiers did nothing to stop it, despite repeated signs and indeed reports that a carnage was taking place...
...small stories, the longest of them just over 300 words; the New York Times gave the story most of three densely packed pages. Editor John Curley's once-over-lightly format has not changed much since the paper's first issue noted the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel on page...
...Service Employees International Union (S.E.I.U.), which represents custodial and building-service workers, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (A.F.S.C.M.E.) cheered provisions that 1) require Social Security coverage for nonprofit organizations, which may now elect not to participate, and 2) ban the withdrawal of state and local government employees from the system. These unions maintain that their memberships are better served by Social Security than by private pension plans...
When he was appointed two years ago by President-elect Reagan to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Richard Schweiker, 56, wanted to be remembered as the Cabinet member who put preventive medicine at the top of the nation's health agenda. He will probably be better known, however, as the man who attempted to trim federal welfare rolls and overhaul Medicare and formally presented the Administration's plan to reduce Social Security benefits, a proposal that went down in a flurry of controversy...