Word: reappointment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Indonesia?s president is to be elected by an assembly in which 34 percent of the seats are reserved for appointees of the military and the government, which together with Golkar?s 20 percent and the endorsement of one or two smaller parties would allow them to reappoint President B. J. Habibie...
...lobby for a job but has carefully managed to be on hand when the powers that be were casting around for a candidate. He was a last-minute compromise candidate for the premiership last September when, after weeks of chaos, it became clear that Yeltsin's attempt to reappoint Viktor Chernomyrdin Prime Minister was leading the country deeper into crisis...
...threat of a recession that could gravely wound or even kill his re-election bid. But he dare not put any overt pressure on the fiercely independent Fed, or on its Republican-appointed chairman, Alan Greenspan. And though the President has been pointedly silent about whether he will reappoint Greenspan when his term expires March 1, few people in Washington think he would risk dumping him. There would be too much hell to pay in Congress, on Wall Street and in the business community, where Greenspan is an inflation-conquering hero...
...House passed and sent to the President for his expected signature a renewal of the law authorizing an independent counsel to investigate accusations of wrongdoing by top federal officials. The law, which lapsed in 1992 because of Republican opposition, will probably be used to reappoint Whitewater special counsel Robert Fiske, first named by Attorney General Janet Reno. One feature of the measure offers good news for the President, who has been pondering setting up a legal-defense fund to meet his mounting bills: it authorizes reimbursement of some legal fees for those under investigation...
...Rudenstine works to reappoint a dean asquickly as possible, professors say the search isbusiness as usual--secretive and silent...