Under the new civil service legislation, assistant ministers and deputy state secretaries are hired through a competitive selection process, paving the way for continuity in civil service.

根据新的公务员法，助理部长和副部长的任命将通过竞争性的选拔程序，为行政事务的延续性铺平了道路。

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There have been female governors, secretaries of state and Supreme Court justices, but only one female speaker.

曾经有过女性州长、国务卿和最高法院大法官，但是女性众议院议长只有一位。

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Half the Ivy League presidents are women, and two of the three network anchors soon will be; three of the four most recent Secretaries of State have been women.

长春藤大学校长中一半是女性，新闻主播中也将有三分之二由女性担任，最近四任国务卿中出现了三位女性。

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Mr.Obama discussed nuclear non-proliferation in the Oval Office Tuesday with former secretaries of state George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, as well as former Defense Secretary William Perry and Sam Nunn, former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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Participants included the Government of India, State Secretaries of Education, academic and TVET institutions, national and international experts in planning and assessment, NGOs, industry partners and UN agencies.

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Last week, he gathered together virtually everyone who was anyone in the conduct of foreign policy for the past quarter-century: former presidents, former secretaries of state, former secretaries of commerce, even a long serving former Senate leader, Mike Mansfield, still sprightly at 97.

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And as it relates to the START treaty, you have the secretaries of state -- the last five for the last five -- the last five secretaries of state for Republican Presidents who have come out in favor of this, people across the political spectrum who believe this is simply the right thing to do.

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