Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditional explanations were threefold: that lacking a profit motive, there is no incentive to run Government bureaucracies efficiently; that such organizations are, by size and character, unwieldy and unmanageable; and that the job security offered by the civil service system makes it impossible to fire incompetent employees...
...this trap, both of which tend to compound the problem. The first is to jump sideways as you jump up, finding high-paid jobs in other agencies that you often are only remotely qualified to fill. Most hiring officers prefer the relatively unqualified but established civil servant to the highly qualified outsider because all outsiders are unknown quantities...
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...
...making out we're politicians, and that's a load of stuff," sneers Strummer, but Jones may cut a little closer when he recalls the title of his school song, Servants of the State to Be. "It was the high hope that you would become a civil servant," he says. "That was the best you could do. But rock 'n' roll changed the way I look at society...
...position depends almost entirely on Article V's statement that the convention will be for the purpose of "proposing amendments." But this is a semantic technicality; if the Constitution had read in the singular, it would prohibit conventions from proposing multiple amendments like the Bill of Rights or the Civil War amendments. Ackerman clearly wants to make a convention sound so threatening that no one will desire...