In coming weeks donors will be watching to see how President Mugabe realigns his cabinet, manages his budget and handles land redistribution.
At first we think it's just a skim of mud on the pots we find still neatly stacked in a swollen cabinet we manage to force open.
ATHENS — Political and economic tremors rolled out of Greece and across Europe again on Thursday as the caretaker prime minister, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, appointed a temporary cabinet to manage the country's affairs until June 17, when the second general election in a little more than a month is held.
After the sudden and unexpected death of Carneiro Leão in September 1856, his cabinet only managed to survive him by a few months.
John-Stevas leader of the Commons with a seat in the cabinet, responsible for managing the government's parliamentary agenda.
When she wasn't managing cabinet orders, Seibert was scooping ice cream, picking up a few Spanish words, collecting rent and fielding phone calls about dripping faucets.
1.14pm: This is from Chris Moncrieff's Press Association obituary of Lord Walker (see 11.05am): While other Tory "wets" and "moderates" were ousted one by one from her Cabinets, Lord Walker managed to keep his place, despite frequent furious rows with the then prime minister and occasional public criticism - although well-disguised - of some of her social policies.
The chief cabinet secretary has power second only to the prime minister, for not only is he responsible for managing the cabinet, but he also serves as the government spokesman.When asked whether he was interested in the top job, his rival, Taro Aso, replied with un-Japanese frankness: "I should say so".
Labour's strongest challenger, the sacked cabinet minister David Clark, managed only 192 votes to the winner's 257.
The appointment of Hagel, a former Republican senator with war-hero stature who served in Vietnam but who is not part of the right-wing defense establishment, has the allure of seeming bipartisan, and also gets Obama a big outside-the-box thinker as the leader of the hardest to manage cabinet agency in the government.
Mr. Hariri, 39, who was thrust into a leadership role when his father, Rafik, was assassinated in 2005, will now begin assembling a cabinet to help manage a state that has been plagued by war, deep political divisions and debt of more than $50 billion.
