The May Department Store Company's promotion of Jane T. Elfers, 39, to president and chief executive of the Lord & Taylor division last week was the latest move in a more extensive executive shuffle.
France averaged a new government every six months between 1946 and 1958, the year that Charles de Gaulle created the Fifth Republic with a Constitution that gave extensive executive powers to a directly elected president.
But deteriorating security in Iraq and stepped up attacks on American troops has led to created a new sense of urgency to create an Iraqi interim government with extensive executive powers.
Elimination of the council would probably leave Lawrence B. Lindsey, Mr. Bush's top economic adviser, with less bureaucratic sway over how cabinet departments conduct both domestic and foreign economic policy, a move consistent with what several top advisers described as Mr. Bush's objective of creating a relatively small but powerful cabinet vested with extensive executive authority.
He was given extensive executive powers and placed in a position of "unusual opportunity for the correction of past abuses".
Thus began the two months of political wrangling that brought Mr. Bremer and the former Iraqi opposition leaders to this point: ready to announce the formation of a "governing council" that Mr. Bremer has pledged will have extensive executive powers to hire and fire ministers, draft and approve a budget and send diplomats abroad.
All of AOL's Directors have extensive executive and/or public company board experience in a variety of businesses that are highly relevant to oversight of AOL.
After eight weeks of negotiations with the American and British occupation powers, a "governing council" of between 21 and 25 members will be granted extensive executive powers.
With this in mind, Kentucky historian Thomas D. Clark wrote in 2004 that extensive executive powers had been granted through the creation of a large number of commissions that reported to the governor: During the past century and a half, and especially in the later 20th century, it would have been impossible for state government to operate efficiently without a broadening of executive powers.
Recently, the chaos of modern civil war in Kosovo and East Timor prompted the U.N. to provide its peacekeepers with extensive executive powers -- resembling classic trusteeship -- to facilitate autonomy for these tortured regions.
