Word: appointment
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...revealing. During Andropov's 15-month reign, the former KGB chief launched a campaign against worker absenteeism and nomenklatura corruption. At least one prominent black marketeer, with connections to the family of the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, was executed. Andropov fired several industrial ministers and began to appoint younger, more professional executives to senior posts. Andropov also set up a task force charged with streamlining the bureaucracy. It is thought to be headed by Central Committee Secretariat Member Nikolai Ryzhkov, a close associate of Gorbachev...
...black. A black woman, Jackie Walker, was elected tax collector last fall, becoming the first of her race to win a countywide election since Reconstruction. Walker died in an auto accident on Feb. 1. Selma's minority community is waiting to see if the white county commissioners will appoint another black to take her place...
...Director of the White House Office of Policy Development, Porter helps appoint staff members to other cabinet councils, Neustadt said. Porter also works in the Treasury Department as a close advisor to the secretary...
...President Reagan made a commitment to follow up on our initiatives, to see that they don't fall through the cracks," Loury said after Reagan announced he would appoint a White House official to take charge of the requests...
Last week's report is only the beginning of the investigations of the bank- stock fiasco. Tunik accused no individuals by name, but called on the Knesset to appoint a full-scale commission to delve deeper into the financial disaster. Ha'aretz, a prominent Tel Aviv daily newspaper, demanded a probe "to determine who is responsible and to recommend steps to be taken against them...