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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!uvaarpa!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!RA.MSSTATE.EDU!MAYNOR
  3. Message-ID: <9301271856.AA20584@Ra.MsState.Edu>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  5. Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:56:10 CST
  6. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  7. From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
  8. Subject:      Re: New Attorney General
  9. Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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  12. > He couldn't appoint Hillary or his brother; Johnson signed in a law that
  13. > forbids the President from appointing a relative to a Cabinet-level post.
  14.  
  15. American Heritage Dictionary:  relative -- "one related by kinship" --
  16. kinship -- "the state of being related by common ancestry."  So Hillary
  17. would be eligible.  :-)
  18.    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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