Word: appointment
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...does lay out ambitious goals in some 30 areas where the networks can improve opportunities for minorities. For example, it requires each network to establish a recruitment program for minority managers and writers; to "make every effort to increase its promotional spending for minority shows"; and to appoint at least one new African American to its board of directors by Sept. 1, 2000. Some of the goals are vague and difficult to enforce, like a provision that the networks "cease any practice of ghettoizing 'black shows' whereby they are scheduled together on nights without white programming." That flies...
...understand that the answers to some of these questions might be several months in coming. As with any new organization, there are probably many procedural details that still need to be straightened out. And we are encouraged that Harvard is interested enough in undergraduate input to appoint students to the Trust committee in the first place...
Looking at the council constitution and bylaws, it appears that the president's only responsibility is to appoint committee chairs. But administrative functions are a large part of the 20 to 25 hours current council President Noah Z. Seton '00 says he spends on council business every week...
...fact, the issue has become somewhat of a sore spot for Bush the Younger. After he earned high marks from gay groups for including openly gay people on his campaign staff, a group of Christian conservatives says Bush promised them in a September meeting that he would not appoint gays to any federal posts, according to the Dallas Morning News. The Bush campaign isn't talking about what happened during the meeting; the Log Cabin Republicans have asked for a clarification. Bush has so far managed to pull off the enviable political sleight-of-hand of remaining vague enough...
...first permanent dean chosen to lead the Institute--expected to be named in the next year--will have the power to appoint her own council. Yet, according to the merger agreement, this group too must include eight members of the now defunct board of trustees...