Some may also be offered plum ambassadorships or provincial governorships.

有些人可能得到大使或者州长的肥差。

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As president-elect, Bush also has the power to nominate people to run the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency as well as ambassadorships in a slew of American embassies around the world.

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