Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...act's emphasis on improving management is important. But I wonder -will encouraging competition among managers lead to more efficient Government, or simply to more and better empire building? No new standards for what constitutes good management have been laid down, and in their absence, it's fair to assume that the bureaucrats will continue to respond to old ones...
When President Carter's Civil Service Reform Act finally passed, I asked a few of the oldtimers if they expected it to have any impact. Needless to say, they didn...
...reap the propaganda benefits of restraint. The danger is that if the Chinese were to press the war too far, moving against Hanoi or Haiphong or indicating an intention to stay on Vietnamese soil, the Soviets themselves would not want to appear weak and would feel compelled to act. If so, what would they do? Administration experts say the Soviet options are many. They could mount a major resupply of Vietnamese forces, dispatch large numbers of military advisers, or even take direct military action in Viet...
Almost no one can discuss children rationally; having children and raising them successfully is an essentially irrational act. It obeys a profound and sometimes self-punishing logic like salmon thrashing upriver to spawn, an impulse encoded in the race's will to go on. All kinds of aversions to and adorations of children occur simultaneously now. The young are battered and cherished, subjected to violent extremes of malnourishment and indulgence. Children are so swaddled in myth and delusion that Marian Wright Edelman, director of the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, argues that Americans should...
Carter's inflation fighters did score early success in persuading unions to restrain wage demands, but last week the AFL-CIO announced plans to challenge the program in court. The federation argues that the National Labor Relations Act requires employers to bargain "in good faith" with unions, and claims that doing so is impossible if companies know they can lose federal contracts by agreeing to excessive wage increases...