Word: appointing
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Local 12 and the Master Plumber Association of Greater Boston are engaged in round-the-clock negotiations. Sticking points range from the size of the possible wage increase to the right of the unions to appoint stewards...
...mere 15 minutes. But the tone had turned touchy. Ford seemed a shade too assertive to suit Reagan. "Ron, I'm making a sacrifice here," he said, referring to the possibility of running. "And now I'm asking you to make a sacrifice. I want you to appoint Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State...
...could be the model of a national industrial policy. After years of animosity, the American auto industry and the U.S. Government now seem to realize that cooperation is in their best interests. In addition to announcing the relief measures laid out last week, the President said he would appoint a committee of Government, company and union officials to tackle the industry's long-term problems. It will probably consist of Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt, Commerce Secretary Philip Klutznick, Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, the heads of the five U.S. auto companies, and U.A.W. officials. By next week each member...
Peters proposes an astonishing cure: he urges a revival of that old ogre, the patronage system. He would make the bureaucracy more accountable by letting the President appoint fully half of the 2.9 million federal employees. There is no reason why political appointees cannot be as qualified as any others, argues Peters, and they would want to produce in order to help the President get reelected. Such a change would "allow the President to move the machinery of Government," and enable him "to rebuild the political parties as bulwarks against the threat of single-issue politics." Now all Peters...
...five-member police commission has insisted that it will exercise its right to review departmental decisions on complaints against police and to appoint an independent special hearing officer in particularly sensitive cases. Concedes a member of the police commission: "There is apprehension among blacks about confrontations with the police. Within some segments of the black community, the hostility is as great now as it has ever been...