Word: appointment
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Other proposals in the memo: reduce from 6% to 5% the pay raise scheduled for 1.4 million federal employees this fall; open more federally owned timberland to cutting by private companies in order to increase supplies and hold down the price of lumber; pledge resistance to restrictions on trade; appoint a Cabinet-level "inflation czar" to function as a sort of federal ombudsman who would call attention to excessive Government spending...
...hand, the performances grew out of an aspect of Mallardi's overall dance program. On the other, there is a real possibility that the positions of dance instructor and artistic director of the dance company will eventually have to be divided. It is the responsibility of the board to appoint the staff of the company, including the position of artistic director. A test of the board's effectiveness in staffing its organization occurred two weeks ago, when Mallardi asked the board to dismiss Elizabeth Lee '79, business manager, allegedly because she was "too efficient" and their personalities conflicted...
...number of then common union actions: interunion jurisdictional strikes, and strikes to enforce featherbedding, secondary boycotts and the closed shop. Its key section provides a system to stop strikes that could "imperil the national health and safety." If a President believes a strike poses such a threat, he can appoint a board to investigate the dispute. After he receives the board's report, the Government can seek an injunction from a federal judge forbidding the continuation or start of a strike for 80 days...
...consists of more than constant disavowals of wage-price controls. What that program should be is a legitimate subject for urgent national debate; the very fact of a debate would reassure foreigners that the U.S. is not content just to hope that inflation will go away. Further, Carter might appoint a task force to study ways of increasing U.S. exports, and thus shaving the trade deficit, without trusting to a sinking dollar to do the job. Another useful step would be to ditch the provision of Carter's tax "reform" plan that calls in effect for higher levies...
...several months now, since the departure of Baaron Pittenger to the U.S. Olympic Committee, the position of associate director of athletics has remained vacant. The easy way to fill such an opening would be to appoint yet another bureaucrat skilled in the various aspects of athletic administration...