Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Action on civil service reform, hospital costs...
...Civil Service Reform. To improve the federal bureaucracy's efficiency, Carter proposed that hiring and firing procedures be streamlined for the Government's 2.8 million civil service employees. For high-level bureaucrats, he also recommended greater use of salary incentives based on job performance. Last week the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee approved a bill, but only after it had been substantially rewritten under pressure from lobbyists for Government employees. The committee cut back the incentive program to a two-year experiment and limited it to three agencies, to be designated by the Administration. It proposed...
...years, began entering the capital of Phnom Penh. The Khmer Rouge looted things, such as watches and cameras, but they did not go on a rampage. They seemed disciplined. And at first, there was general jubilation among the city's terrified, exhausted and bewildered inhabitants. After all, the civil war seemed finally over, the Americans had gone, and order, everyone seemed to assume, would soon be graciously restored...
Speech is free in the U.S.S.R. as long as it serves the Communist system, as interpreted by the party leadership. When the state perceives a threat to its welfare, Western ideas about civil rights go out the window. The forms remain-courts, judges, defense lawyers-but in political trials the result is predetermined and the proceedings are often secret and usually travesties...
Dershowitz said the bill is a "fairly decent compromise" because "the majority of Americans support no civil liberties for criminals...