Some Vatican officials say the administration needs to be completely restructured, saying too much power is concentrated in the hands of the secretary of state, a position held by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone until Benedict's resignation in February.

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"As one of the chief architects of the AIG bailout, Secretary Geithner was in a position to do what any lender of the last resort would do -- negotiate concessions from AIG, " he said in a press release.

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At a minimum, the Senator's formidable intellect and committed conservatism should make him a contender in his own right -- for the position of Secretary of State or Defense in a Republican administration headed by whichever candidate has the good political and policy sense to embrace the Wallop vision and, thereby, to improve his chances of winning the White House.

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Dr Reid was promoted to the position of Scottish Secretary in May after Donald Dewar became First Minister in the new Scottish Parliament.

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The law also makes sure that the IPAB is not in a position to make policy, but instead to simply make recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, proposals that Congress is specifically empowered to override if it sees fit.

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Hasan's position in an incredible decision made last month by the secretary of the Army to grant conscientious objector status to Pfc.

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For example, in the face of Soviet demands, Secretary of State James Baker last September abandoned the Reagan position that the START treaty should ban mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles, even though the effect of doing so will be enormously to complicate the verifiability of that agreement.

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"Mr Woodward leaves the position of shadow secretary of state with devolution firmly established and he helped play a role in achieving that outcome, " he said.

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The culture secretary set out the legal position of the Church of England and the Church in Wales in some detail in a blog post in December.

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The outgoing US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is in that privileged position, and he's let rip about some of America's allies in Nato.

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