Word: selecter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...important "process" decisions Clinton must make soon is whether he will control the appointment of sub-Cabinet officers instead of permitting the department Secretaries to select their own deputies. Clinton appears to have firm views on the subject. Carter's problem, Clinton said last winter, "is that he gave little thought to how his appointees would work together. He went for the 'best people' without thinking about their loyalty to him or to his program, and he avoided getting involved with choosing the second-tier people, who are the ones who really run things on a day-to-day basis...
What kind of choice is getting to select one-third of the available houses? By the time students eliminate one or two of the houses that they don't want to live in, they don't have much selection left...
...monolith of bureaucratic public education. Beginning January 1, Russian parents will be completely reimbursed for sending their children to private schools, thereby allowing families to bypass the incompetent state-controlled educational factory. Monday's Wall Street Journal aptly notes that "a parent in Moscow will have more freedom to select a good school than most parents in America." This prospect is extremely embarassing...
Class marshals organize senior class activities, select the Class Day speaker, and coordinate class fundraising after graduation...
Rudenstine also rebuffed a suggestion that thefull faculty should select members of theappointments committee instead of Dean Clark. Hesaid he would not interfere in the process unless"something was clearly wrong...