Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Importers flood Saudi Arabia and the Emirates with more orders than they can fill. The other OPEC producers maintain their high prices and carry through the extra 5% scheduled for July. Eventually the Saudis...
Carter is expected to fill several top-level posts this week, and to complete his Cabinetmaking by Christmas (with perhaps one or two exceptions). Meanwhile, the expectant capital hums with reports about the probable choices for high posts (see profiles). Some smug veterans of past Administrations speculated that Carter had already settled on his team and was prolonging the suspense to make news. This appeared not to be the case. At week's end he did not seem to have made up his mind about anyone other than the two Cabinet-level nominees already announced: Cyrus Vance as Secretary...
Decisions on those matters would come later. For now, Cabinetmaking has top priority, and when Carter flew back to Plains at week's end, he aimed to rest and to think some more about the jobs he hopes to fill in the weeks ahead...
...Every new President seems to dip into his own special talent pool to fill key posts. John Kennedy plucked many of his New Frontiersmen from the Harvard faculty. Richard Nixon staffed his Government with many graduates of U.C.L.A. President-elect Jimmy Carter is expected to draw heavily on two talent repositories-the Trilateral Commission in New York City and the Brookings Institution in Washington...
...principal item on the agenda of the House Democratic Caucus was strictly ho-hum-though it involved selection of the man who will fill the second most powerful political office in the United States: the Speaker of the House. This process has sometimes produced gory battles. But last week, with the 292 Democrats who will sit in the next Congress eligible to vote (along with delegates from the District of Columbia, Guam and the Virgin Islands and the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico), there was literally no contest. Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr. of Massachusetts, after four brilliantly...