Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration, which has been beset by charges of corruption, finally got some good news from the courts last week. In a 2-to-1 decision, the Washington, D.C., appeals court declared unconstitutional the method used to appoint independent counsel and the limits placed on the President's power to remove them at will. The decision puts a large question mark over the conviction last month of former White House Aide Michael Deaver...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson Fund, donated by The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), the Liberal Religious Charitable Society, and the North Shore Unitarian Universalist Society, will allow HDS to appoint a full tenured professor in Unitarian Universalist studies. UUA is the umbrella organization for Unitarian congregations in North America...
...plot: the naked body of the President's chief of staff is found in a bathtub at the Hay-Adams Hotel. Which soaped-up Washington wife was with him when he hit the porcelain, and whom will President Kane (Dean's maiden name) appoint to replace him? Who cares? Fictional names and events are mixed up with the names of real people and actual events, and what comes out is slicker than lip gloss...
...question now is who will be next, a question which reportedly is dividing the Administration itself. Some advisers are said to be counselling that Reagan maintain his support for the Judge until the Senate votes, and then appoint another brash conservative, one with less clips than the prolific Bork. They want to force a confrontation with the Senate. In an off-the-cuff remark Tuesday, Reagan vowed to do just that...
...That's an old bureaucrat's trick, one of theoldest in the book," Anderson said in hisstatement. "If one wants to avoid dealing with anissue, appoint a committee, don't take anypositive action, and wait until the heat diesdown...