Word: appoints
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...next spring. Yet a relatively minor scandal has prompted the President to launch a war against journalists. They have responded with angry resistance, but the artillery at Giscard's command is formidable. The three French television channels and the national radio network are all state run. The government appoints their directors, who appoint their news editors, who make sure that little is broadcast that might displease Giscard. Lately the President has taken to referring to "my television," in the manner of Charles de Gaulle, who considered the French broadcasting industry to be his private preserve. Says French Press...
...chairman of the medical department at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) plans to step down from the post as soon as a search committee can appoint a successor...
...nomination was "held up by the Republicans in anticipation of a Reagan victory, and it looks like their strategy paid off, a source in the NRC, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday. "It looks like Reagan will appoint whomever he deems appropriate," the source said...
Although observes said they think Reagan will appoint a pro-nuclear Republican to the post, they agreed that his nominee would not be stridently pro-nuclear. A spokesman for the Reagan transition team said yesterday no action has been taken on finding a nominee...
...Republican party supports equal rights," Anne Wexler, a special assistant to Carter, asks, "why isn't it in their platform?" Incredulity is mixed with general fear; they know that anti-ERA support and the Right to Life movement run deep. While they ridicule measures like Reagan's promise to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court, they privately fear the worst. And they desperately hope that the important issues--overt social and economic discrimination (women still earn only 59 cents for every man's dollar)--will get lost in the shuffle...