Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority of the Cabinet can send a written statement to Congress declaring that the President is incapable of holding office. If the President were to challenge such a resolution, Congress itself would vote on the question. The amendment also authorizes the President to appoint, and Congress to confirm, a new Vice President if a vacancy occurs in that office...
...four states to opposition parties, including the state of Kerala to the Communists. The outcome was vitally important to Indira, who, unlike the vast majority of candidates, faces another election almost immediately. In April the Congress Party will convene to assess the election results and decide whether to confirm Indira in office for a full five-year term or choose a new Prime Minister...
...manuscript was "a robust amused declarative style." This is a reasonable first impression. Tate has created graceful balances with the potentially disastrous load of fact his senses yield him; and he has done it largely by virtue of his metaphorical muscle. His rhythms and his syntax tend to confirm the analogies he suggests, Thus, in "Pastoral Scene...
Events of the past year seem to confirm the inevitability of these conflicts. Harvard had a number of runins with federal requirements, and the most dramatic one still continues. This dispute is over so-called "effort reports"--that is, a professor's obligation to account for his time if he is doing research under a federal grant. More and more agencies are demanding that he estimate how much time he devotes to his project; most professors believe this impossible and undesirable. They have, conformed for the present, but the fight continues to eliminate or modify the regulation...
...members of the legislature should make that abundantly clear to the governor by criticizing his education budget now. Perhaps Reagan's refusal to say anything more about tuition since the uproar will confirm for California voters what some realized in November: their new governor got elected by keeping one eye on the opinion polls and the other on filmed playbacks of his press conferences--and he is likely to continue operating that...