The nomination of Mr. Burleigh -- a former ambassador to Sri Lanka and a State Department special envoy on counterterrorism -- was a career appointment.
Starting in 2013, the permanent ricercatore position, which for many became a final career appointment rather than a step onto the ladder as it was intended, will no longer exist.
The Seals conduct their operations with the philosophy of "spray and pray," a credo which seems to determine a good deal of the behavior of the mercenaries working for Blackwater USA, whose CEO, Erik Prince, left a career appointment in the Seals to start what is now a billion-dollar federal contracting firm, Blackwater USA.
Some regimes still use ambassadorships to exile political opponents; others, such as Britain, deviate from career appointments occasionally for special but nonpolitical reasons.
While many of the candidates Goodling vetted had applied for political appointments (in which case such questions would be legal) in a number of examples, Goodling used political affiliation to disqualify candidates who had applied for career appointments.
Song scholar-officials were granted ranks, honors, and career appointments on the basis of merit, the standards of which were codified and more objective than those in the Tang dynasty.
They brought this expertise to their first career appointments at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), where they helped to make great leaps forward in mouse genetics before moving to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), where they spent 22 years working on various projects in developmental genetics and cancer.
On Wednesday, a couple and their young sons grabbed a bite after a potentially career-making appointment.
DeYoung recounts the run-up to that speech in greater detail than she provides for any other period in Powell's career: his appointment as secretary of state, his steady humiliation inside the Bush administration, his willingness to pay the boss his shilling, and then some.
Among the dancers in the company then, a significantly higher number of men have gone on to choreographic careers and appointments to direct major ballet institutions.
