Word: appointment
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...presented them in 1977, recommended that the Faculty abolish the language requirement. The final Core report says the language requirement should remain, but also says, "in view of the complex questions attendant on implementing such a view...all of which require further study, we recommend that the dean appoint a special committee for this purpose." Phyllis Keller, associate dean for academic planning, says the appointment of that committee will have to come soon so they can decide if and how they will continue the requirement...
...bottom line on the Faculty's vote, taken May 2, left the substantive development of the Core up to the Facylty standing committee and several subcommittees--all of whose members are to be appointed by Rosovsky. In a recent interview, the dean said he has spent the summer conferring with faculty members and administrators, and intends to name the committee members by the time classes begin in September. "People think I moved slowly on these things, but that is the way I prefer it," he says adding that he has spent most of his time weighing the appointment...
Soares had warned that the Socialists will not participate in any new coalition, thereby blocking the possibilities for any other multiparty government. Eanes' most likely option is to appoint an interim "presidential" government to hold office until scheduled national elections in 1980. If he does that, the leading contender for the Premier's job will be Colonel Mário Firmino Miguel, a political independent who served as Soares' Defense Minister. Firmino Miguel almost became Premier in 1974, when he was the choice of then President António de Spínola, but was forced aside by leftist army officers who eventually...
Although the post is largely ceremonial, the President has the power to appoint premiers and to choose the moment for calling national elections. For that reason, the Christian Democrats were reluctant to surrender their hold on the office to another party. Beyond that, they felt that Pertini was being "imposed" on them by the ambitious Socialist leader Bettino Craxi. While negotiations to break the impasse continued behind closed doors, the electors went through 15 inconclusive ballots, with the proceedings broadcast on national television. Although Pertini was their compromise candidate, the Communists on early ballots cast symbolic votes for a favorite...
...seventh seat was vacated by Burns, and Carter has decided to appoint a woman to an institution once so male chauvinist that it took Eleanor Roosevelt to crash the men-only rule in the board's dining room. The successor is Nancy Teeters, 47, the chief economist of the House Budget Committee. She was chosen largely because she has strong liberal views that she argues forcefully; Carter sees the board, Miller excepted, as a hotbed of Hoover Republicanism...