Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said only that "the decision was made that it would be prefer able to extend the appointment for two years, and then do a regular review at that time...
With those words ended another tortuous episode of indecision in the Clinton White House. Though few who know Stephen Breyer doubt his brilliance as a jurist, the President seemed to lack any compelling reason to prefer him. A Babbitt nomination would have gone further to satisfy the President's stated desire to put someone on the court who had real-world experience as a consensus builder. Arnold, who was once Clinton's law professor, was the choice closest to the President's heart...
...member of the Class of 1934, who said hewould prefer to remain nameless, remembers readingperiod fondly...
...poorest of the poor, the Administration is proposing a series of economic incentives designed to create mixed-income developments where the role models Lane seeks (mostly poor too, but working nonetheless) can live without bankrupting themselves. To this end, HUD will shortly amend its rules so local authorities can prefer working families over welfare recipients as they fill apartment vacancies from waiting lists that now total an astonishing 6 million people nationwide. Rent caps are coming too. Currently families pay 30% of their income in rent, a figure that climbs as earnings rise, a nonsensical policy "that creates a work...
Mandela may simply find it impossible to discipline the wife who suffered so much during his 27 years in prison. Or he might prefer to have her in his government where he can keep an eye on her, since she has staked out a separate role as leader of the most militant and potentially violent of the township proletariat -- especially the gun-toting youth gangs. While the A.N.C.'s top echelon is mostly moderate, almost 50% of its 1 million rank-and- file members are in the militant camp. If reforms begin to slip and there is no tangible progress...