Mr. Rumsfeld's newly nominated deputy, Paul D. Wolfowitz, has publicly advocated that policy.

In fact, it was taken on June 3, 1860, when Lincoln was the newly nominated Republican candidate for the White House.

But the newly nominated majority promises no improvement.

"What form it will take is unpredictable, but it will be inevitable," said Leonid Abalkin, newly nominated to be Deputy Prime Minister.

His imprisonment destroyed his health, and he died in the middle of January 1815 as the newly nominated brigadier-general of the army of the Congress Poland.

Andrew M. Cuomo, the newly nominated Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: A White House with an urban policy.

The company's newly nominated chief executive, Anders Moberg, tried to reassure shareholders about the future.

The old Planetary Dirigent had died and the newly nominated Dirigent-Designate was to be fêted at a grand garden party.

As it happens, the administration's newly nominated ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, had useful experience with these issues in his previous role as ambassador to Afghanistan.

But that very power has contributed to a long list of potentially difficult problems that his newly nominated successor must face - without the benefit of Mr. Casey's clout.