Word: handpicked
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...form the nucleus of a new regime. Neither happened, and now dozens of powerful tribes, religious organizations and ethnic groups, as well as exiles, are jockeying to fill the vacuum. The U.S. has to be careful. It's just possible that the worst thing Washington could do is handpick a winner, who would be tainted as an American puppet. The dangers of that were apparent in Najaf, where the mob murder of a pro-American Shi'ite cleric last week showed how lethal such an image...
...governance--and is actually required to do so as part of his new contract, worth about $6 million annually in cash and stock. That should be a little easier now that the seven board members left over from Bernie Ebbers' free-spending days have just quit, leaving Capellas to handpick the majority of a new, more independent board...
...Party has been in bad shape for more than four years. Rove is hoping to resuscitate it by helping in the campaign against Democratic Governor Gray Davis, but he's had nothing but trouble so far. First, Rove decided the best way to beat Davis was for Bush to handpick the ideal nominee. Bush threw his weight behind Richard Riordan, the moderate former Los Angeles mayor. But Riordan ran a lethargic, unfocused primary campaign, and conservative businessman Bill Simon, who's never held office before, pounded Riordan, calling him too liberal for the party. Of course, Simon...
...will handpick the chairs of the remaining committees next semester. Future plans for committee election format have not yet been determined, Pryor said...
Also, Davis is able to handpick his teaching fellows from undergraduates and recent graduates. During the academic year, TFs are assigned to Chem 5, also taught by Davis, without his input because spots are reserved for all first year graduate students in chemistry...