Already, he has made a number of high-level appointments and begun to restructure the department, shaking its hierarchy down to the secretarial level.

But White House officials emphasize that compared with other high-level appointments, the six weeks is not unusual.

With the recession looming, I took the decision to make a high-level appointment of our first national sales manager.

"Until we have some high-level appointments, the Asian-American community is going to be very skeptical of that."

But recent high-level political appointments of administration supporters to both bodies have neutered their influence.

The next President will have some 4,000 high-level appointments immediately available to him, the candidate said, adding that he would bring strict conservatives to all of them.

He talks about the high-level black appointments Bush has made to his cabinet.

A series of other diplomatic and high-level official appointments involve crucial Asian policy positions.

Not long ago, nannies landed in the spotlight only when women with high-level political appointments were caught hiring them off the books.

Got a high-level appointment at State, then on to the National Security Council.