Even better, he could appoint a high-level deputy for Guantanamo — Vice President Joe Biden, say, or retiring FBI Director Robert Mueller or even former CIA Director David H. Petraeus — to negotiate a solution with Congress, which has been more trouble than most foreign governments.
From there, she served in several high-level posts, including deputy interior secretary and ambassador to Cuba.
A onetime printer who aspired to the heights of London society as chief executive of Christie's auction house testified yesterday that the former chairmen of Christie's and Sotheby's masterminded a scheme to squelch competition and boost profits and deployed him and a high-level Sotheby's deputy to carry it out.
In 2010, after the City Council loosened the residency requirement, Mr. Bloomberg signed an executive order requiring high-level officials, including first deputy mayors and deputy mayors, to maintain city residency.
Yet that has not stopped high-level city officials like Deputy Mayor Linda I. Gibbs and Deputy Mayor Kevin Sheekey from lobbying the governor's office directly to win some concessions in how much the city will pay.
In an unusually blunt public assessment for such a high-level meeting, Lael Brainard, the deputy national economic adviser, made no effort to put a positive spin on it.
A6 Taliban Seeking U.N. Seat The Taliban movement, which controls most of Afghanistan, sent a high-level delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Abdur Rahman Zahid to lobby for the country's United Nations seat, which is now held by a coalition opposed to the Taliban.
Johnson would take over an agency with numerous high-level vacancies, including the deputy secretary.
High-level officials, including the Deputy Prime Minister Elchin Afandiyev, the Vice-Speaker of the Azerbaijani parliament, Bahar Muradova, Minister of Education Misir Mardanov, the chairperson of the State Committee on Family, Woman and Child Problems, Hijran Huseynova, Minister of Labor and Social Protection Fizuli Alakbarov and Ombudsman Elmira Suleymanova will speak at the conference.
Detective Sgt. Nicholas Baudo, president of the Nassau County Superior Officers Association, said that 15 high-level officers -- including two deputy chiefs and two inspectors -- had submitted retirement papers and that he expected another 5 to 10 by the end of the year.
