But big companies continue to make extraordinary appointments: in 2011 IAC, a media conglomerate chaired by Barry Diller, appointed Chelsea Clinton, then a 31-year-old graduate student, to its board.
Although the buzz it created was extraordinary, his appointment was still a surprise.
One leading businessman who knows him - and the broadcasting industry - well says it is an extraordinary and questionable appointment: "Luke's completely money-mad.
These were rated so highly that in 1892 he was offered the post of Professor of Latin at University College, London; for a man who had flunked his degree, this was extraordinary, but the appointments board had neither doubts nor options.
The extraordinary number of appointments Sunday, they suggested, looked like a farewell bestowal of coveted jobs by a patron unsure of his longevity--and a way to guarantee a full house of like-minded electors when he's gone.
No, Cannon's long tenure at EPA may be extraordinary simply because his appointment was so..
He also called a meeting of all the "keepers," as English curators were called then, and did something that Frances Morris, who had joined the Tate a few months before his appointment, found extraordinary.
That, says Mr Dall'Anese, is tribute to the attorney-general, Claudia Paz y Paz, "a very honest woman [who] has done an extraordinary job" since her appointment in December.Whether to extend the UN's mandate when it runs out in September 2013 will be up to the next president, probably Otto Pérez Molina, who looks set to win a run-off election on November 6th.
Rewarded for his extraordinary work by an appointment to Minto's staff, Raffles sailed with him to Java, where the expeditionary force landed without mishap on Aug. 6, 1811, and, after a short and sharp engagement with the Dutch-French forces, occupied the island.
"Lifetime appointments demand extraordinary caution," he said.
The Officers in Ordinary are appointed by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm, and the Officers Extraordinary by Royal Sign Manual; all appointments are announced in the London Gazette.
