Word: reappointment
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...President Nixon named her to head the Federal Maritime Commission, where she coupled Agnewesque assaults on reporters ("fall guys for the misfits and malcontents of our society") with a flag-waving defense of American shipping lines. Foreign shippers protested her lack of impartiality, and President Ford decided not to reappoint...
...Cambridge School Committee, in an unexpected and unprecedented move, voted late Thursday night not to reappoint the entire high school administrative staff next year...
...became pregnant. They later tried to operate a waterfront potato stand, but his city hall duties consumed too much of his time. He decided to resign the post on Nov. 10, then changed his mind and waged a vain fight to get the post back. Moscone had refused to reappoint...
...Democrats also re-elected Texan Representative Jim Wright to his second term as the House majority leader. Wright and O'Neill said they would reappoint Rep. John Brademas of Indiana as Democratic whip and Illinois Rep. Dan Rostenkowski as chief deputy whip...
...that he is no pushover. He knows the art of byzantine maneuver and long-range tactics, having learned it in confrontation with a Communist bureaucracy at least as formidable as that at the Vatican. He has already thrown the Curia off balance, in fact, by failing so far to reappoint all major officials, as is customary. On Saturday the Pope addressed the Vatican press corps, then to the consternation of his aides waded into the throng of 1,000 like a U.S. presidential candidate, shaking hands and answering questions in five languages for more than a half-hour. The next...