Senator Helms had held up a vote on the nominees for months, leaving Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill without a deputy and slowing work throughout the department.
The BBC is under pressure to streamline as it moves its radio services under one roof in London's Broadcasting House, and these changes are likely to deliver some cost savings if Cooper is appointed Parfitt's successor without a deputy.
He also said he would participate in the protest planned for Saturday, despite the risk that, without a deputy's mandate, he would no longer have immunity from criminal prosecution.
Chief constable appointments by PCCs have not generated as much interest, but we're seeing a record number of internal appointments and almost unprecedented cases of candidates jumping straight from assistant chief to chief without being a deputy chief first.
"The violations are so serious that the Department will begin depopulating Avalon Tulsa immediately without notice," Reginald Hines, a deputy director in the Department of Corrections, wrote in a public letter to the company, citing problems with "count, security, possession of contraband and offender safety".
"The common thread is that you don't achieve diplomatic progress in the Middle East without significant pressure," Benjamin J. Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser, said Thursday.
So the Administration is toying with the idea of giving him another recess appointment (which would enable him to keep the job without drawing the salary) or naming him to a deputy position without filling the top spot (which would enable him to stay on as "acting" Ambassador without the extraordinary and plenipotentiary title).
Without the presence of Eric Nadelstern, a deputy chancellor who retired after Ms. Black's appointment, the department seemed increasingly unfamiliar with the needs of individual schools.
Even before he took the post the Philharmonic's autocratic president, Dorothy Chandler, breached his contract by appointing a deputy music director without Solti's approval.
The city Department of Education's top lawyer resigned yesterday, becoming the second casualty in a widening scandal over the hiring of a deputy chancellor's husband without the proper conflict-of-interest clearance.
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein vigorously defended himself and the school system's top lawyer, Chad Vignola, yesterday over their roles and those of other high-ranking education officials in the hiring of a deputy chancellor's husband without the required conflict-of-interest clearance.
