• They want the Category A appointments to be more than just a pre-appointment hearing.

    BBC: Committees seek power over key hiring and firings

  • Doctors must make judgments during a 15-minute appointment about a patient's ability to speak, move and walk.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • The Science and Technology Committee meets the preferred candidate to take over the Medical Research Council, Donald Brydon, for a pre-appointment hearing.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • The trial in Manhattan is seeking to reform the practice of stop, question and frisk, a contentious law enforcement tactic, and lawyers for the plaintiffs are seeking a court-appointment monitor to oversee the changes.

    WSJ: NYC officer testifies on stop challenged in suit

  • Prof Ebdon had told MPs at a pre-appointment hearing last week that if he became the director of fair access, he would be prepared to use financial sanctions against universities which failed to reach access targets.

    BBC: Vince Cable in stand off with MPs over Offa boss

  • The week ends on Thursday with a bang as the Treasury Committee (at 9.45pm) has a pre-appointment hearing with Dr Mark Carney, soon to become one of the most powerful people in the land, when he takes over as the next governor of the Bank of England.

    BBC: Week ahead in committees

  • Lock Ifereimi Rawaqa came within inches of adding a third second-half touchdown, yet South Africa survived to book a last-four appointment with Argentina.

    CNN: South Africa overcome gallant Fiji

  • Within weeks - before a neurologist appointment even arrived - he was unable to stand unaided.

    BBC: Fighting to save his son

  • Now, she says, the computer alerts the clinic staff when a patient has skipped a follow-up appointment or failed to schedule a periodic screening.

    CNN: King: Will health care reform reach rural America?

  • To make a maintenance appointment, does a client need to wait at home for a 6-hour appointment window, have the technician show up late, and track mud through her freshly-cleaned carpet, no wonder she called to argue about the bill.

    FORBES: Bringing The Magic Kingdom To Your Customers

  • C. in January to start a one-year appointment at the Federal Trade Commission, the federal agency tasked with protecting consumer privacy.

    FORBES: Names You Need To Know in 2011: Ed Felten

  • He failed to attend a follow-up appointment in Oxford on 7 October.

    BBC: CCTV released of missing malaria trial man

  • The England and Wales Cricket Board are awaiting the verdict of a review of the Ashes and World Cup failures before making a full-time appointment.

    BBC: Fletcher to quit after World Cup

  • Currently, he's in the midst of a 3-year appointment as Artistic Partner with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and he's the Pianist-in-Residence at the Berlin Philharmonic.

    NPR: Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Art of the Etude

  • Now it just so happens that that will be a three-year appointment and it comes to an end at about the same time as the period of the regulator, of Tom Windsor's position.

    BBC: News Online

  • There's an unusual joint session of the Welsh Affairs and Culture, Media and Sport Committees for a joint pre-appointment hearing with Huw Jones, the preferred candidate for new Chair of S4C, the Welsh language TV channel which was brought under the BBC's organisational umbrella after running into financial difficulties.

    BBC: A guide to highlights coming up in Parliament

  • At one HMO you can see a nurse-practitioner in a week, but it takes three months to schedule an appointment with a normal, run-of-the-mill doctor.

    CNN: Washington Diary: Another Dose Of Harry And Louise

  • Vinci said it was significant that Karadzic's arrest had come just a few weeks after the appointment of a pro-western coalition government spearheaded by the Democratic Party of Serbian President Boris Tadic and new Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic following a narrow victory over nationalists in parliamentary elections in May.

    CNN: Analysis: Arrest indicates Serbia's shift west

  • Despite the attorney-general's appointment of a respected ex-senator from Missouri, John Danforth, to investigate Waco, Republicans in Congress still want to conduct their own inquiry.

    ECONOMIST: The Waco investigation

  • According to a 2005 Senate subcommittee report, Picco provided his services on a number of occasions from 1997 to 2003--overlapping with his Dialogue appointment as a U.N. special representative and undersecretary-general--as a consultant on Oil-for-Food to Bayoil, a company owned by Houston oil man David Chalmers.

    FORBES: Freedom's Edge

  • Earlier in the day, First Secretary Alun Michael had vociferously defended what many perceived to be a bad start for the Assembly with the controversy over the beef-on-the-bone ban, the appointment of a vegetarian agriculture secretary and a non-Welsh speaker as Welsh language minister.

    BBC: 26 May 1999: The Queen opens the first Assembly

  • Earlier this month, a European minority languages organisation raised concerns about making a non Gaelic-speaking appointment.

    BBC: Gaelic school head teacher post remains vacant

  • '" She was given a second four-hour appointment window and told she was "next.

    WSJ: The Wait-Time Misery Index

  • Last year, a European minority languages organisation raised concerns about the authority making a non Gaelic-speaking appointment.

    BBC: Inverness Gaelic school set to grow in size

  • And although America is not a great advertisement for the confirmation process, the principle of pre-appointment hearings is a good one.

    ECONOMIST: Financial regulators

  • The First Minister said the most recent figures show that the number of people waiting over 18 months for a first out-patient appointment fell by nearly 40 per cent, the lowest level since April 2001.

    BBC: NEWS | Programmes | BBC Parliament | Wales: First Minister's Questions (05/05/04)

  • But free tours of other areas of the base are available -- by appointment only -- twice a month.

    CNN: Where planes go to die

  • There has already been a review of wildlife crime policing in Scotland which recommended the appointment of a full-time wildlife coordinator within each police force area and minimum standards of investigation.

    BBC: Wildlife crime 'not taken seriously'

  • One sign of the impending storm is the much-remarked appointment as a Labour whip in the Lords of the legendary bruiser Tommy McAvoy - who has a fearsome reputation from his days as a Commons whip.

    BBC: Parliamentary warfare breaks out in Lords over NHS bill

  • Mr Grillo denounced Mr Napolitano's re-appointment as a "coup d'etat".

    BBC: Italy crisis: President Giorgio Napolitano re-elected

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