The members of the committees will be appointed on a more objective basis with less emphasis on party placemen.
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Frank Dobson, the health secretary, has not thrown many Tory placemen off health trusts in favour of council representatives, as many had hoped he would.
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Rasputin's placemen, once in office, were obliged to grant him the lesser favours in which he trafficked wholesale preferments, contracts, judgments, subsidies, pardons and the like.