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...bureaucrats covered by Civil Service rules cannot exceed the salary for political appointees in Executive Level Five. Thus absurdities abound. The Joint Chiefs of Staff earn $50,112, precisely what the Deputy Joint Chiefs of Staff make and, as it happens, the same as the head of the Oklahoma City air logistics center. Such imbalances ought to increase pressure on Congress to vote raises some time this year, especially when no one is up for reelection. Even so, the freeze is not likely to be lifted, and for the same old shortsighted reason: it looks bad for Congress to increase...
...chummy, folksy sort with a penchant for apples and not always dazzling one-liners, Symms put steady pressure on his opponent, trying to smoke him out as a snake-in-the-grass liberal in a state where conservatives abound. Symms focused his attack on Church's dovishness on foreign affairs, his support of the Panama Canal treaties and his occasional kindly remarks about Fidel Castro. Said Symms: "I say we must keep our commitments to our friends. Church favors throwing our friends to the alligators and hopes they'll eat us last." Stressing that he was conducting...
Even before most of its public servants began heading off to jail, jokes stuck to Philadelphia like flies stick to...now there I go. Philosophies abound about the origins of the city's meagre reputation: The uncompetitive Quaker faith; the Erie Canal; bad karma, and of course W.C. "On the whole, I'd rather..." Fields...
...Concord or in Manchester, signs for Reagan and Carter are hard to find. Clearly, the focus of attention has shifted to tight and emotional local races more likely to produce a high turnout. The signs for the state campaigns abound: Gallen vs. Thompson for governor, Durkin vs. Rudman for Senate, all the way down to Francis Sheine for Governor's Council...
...muslin cravat then in fashion." Mellow provides similarly telling details about Hawthorne's diet--at one dinner he ate cutlets, fricassees, ragouts, tongue and chickenpies--and about his wife's wardrobe (Sophia's first ball dress, a "superb brockade," was "paletinted, low-neck, and short-sleeved"). Other minor details abound from the cost of Hawthorne's trip from Rome to Florence (95 scudi, with an additional five crowns for the tip) to the name of Isa Blagden's lapdog (Frolic...