Word: pick
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...Washington Richardson Bows Out President-elect Barack Obama's pick for Commerce Secretary, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, withdrew his name from consideration amid a grand-jury investigation into state contracts awarded to a political contributor. While the governor headed back to the statehouse, Obama's team scrambled to fill other crucial posts...
Leon Panetta Bill Clinton's former top aide is reportedly the pick for CIA chief, a role some say should be reserved for agency veterans...
...quite an improvement from the last time his team battled a ranked opponent. In last year’s opener against No. 23 Stanford, he had no points, turnovers, or assists, but did pick up five fouls in a 111-56 loss...
...many ways, the selection of Dr. Sanjay Gupta as President-elect Barack Obama's pick for surgeon general makes perfect sense. As a television personality, he has ample experience communicating with Americans about health issues in a necessarily simple way - and that is really the bulk of the job (though the Washington Post reports that Gupta has been offered a concurrent position in the new White House Office of Health Reform), though most surgeons general have been largely invisible since the days of Ronald Reagan's C. Everett Koop, who spoke out often against the dangers of smoking. Bill Clinton...
...think at times elected officials lose sight of the fact that the younger generation uses different means of communications. They don't necessarily pick up the New York Times to get their news. They may go online, and they may use more things like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube - things that members of the older generation aren't as accustomed to using to communicate with constituents...