Word: high-level
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...officials said a new high-level appointee would be likely someone already in Bush's inner circle, such as former Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans; Budget Director Joshua B. Bolten; U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman; Karen Hughes, the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs; or former Republican National Committee chairmen Marc F. Racicot and Ed Gillespie. Former Senator Dan Coats of Indiana, who helped with Bush's two Supreme Court confirmations, was also mentioned. A Republican official familiar with White House deliberations, while careful to stress that only the President knows what is going to happen...
...Many of the prisoners have been indentified by the Pentagon as high-level al-Qaeda or Taliban fighters captured on battlefields in Afghanistan. They are kept in a solitary confinement and cannot see or communicate with one another...
...their associates. The money, alleges Githongo, was actually intended to build an election "war chest" for the ruling coalition. Two Ministers named in the graft report have quit, and parliament has questioned Kenya's Vice President over what he knew. All three men proclaim their innocence, and no high-level official has been convicted. But the tremors continue. "We are seeing political accountability on corruption for the first time in Kenyan history," says Githongo, 40. "It's a painful process, and no one ever said it would be straightforward, but hopefully some of the impunity witnessed will never happen again...
Frankel added that “you would never know” that Calderón was already a high-level politician when he was at the Kennedy School...
...review and the restructuring of University Hall went underway, Kirby seemed to close himself off from reporters, his tone marked by tight-lipped reticence, even weariness. The dean began to rely increasingly on FAS Director of Communications Robert Mitchell—who became a frequent fixture at interviews with high-level administrators—to provide reporters with packaged comments and to carefully monitor and control the flow of information...