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Chancellor nominated for federal job

Chancellor nominated for federal job

(December 11, 2001)

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President George W. Bush announced his intention Tuesday, Dec. 11, to nominate Raymond L. Orbach, chancellor of the University of California, Riverside, as the new director of the Department of Energy Office of Science.

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