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Word: civilizations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decades, Presidents have used the census as a patronage honeypot, dispensing part-time counting jobs to allies at the grass roots. Even Jimmy Carter, who championed civil service reform, signed a waiver in 1979 so that his followers could be hired. But George Bush has apparently missed the 1990 census gravy train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American: Notes WASHINGTON Down for The Count | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...time he did so on Sept. 2, his department had already hired about two-thirds of the required census coordinators through the civil service. Thus these nonpartisan supervisors will be able to select most of the 400,000 door- to-door enumerators at up to $8 an hour. Republicans are livid. Complained Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber: "Patronage is the lifeblood of politics in many congressional districts. To have this slip by us for bureaucratic reasons is just infuriating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American: Notes WASHINGTON Down for The Count | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...Montgomery, said he was sorry to disturb her at home but hoped she would seriously consider the reason for his call: he wanted to know if she would be open to the idea of creating a memorial to those who had given their lives in the struggle for civil rights. Since she had designed the much celebrated Viet Nam Veterans Memorial, he was certain that she was the right, perhaps only, person to do this. As with Viet Nam, there had never been such a memorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First She Looks Inward: MAYA LIN | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...Maya Lin, the process of creating the Civil Rights Memorial will not only culminate with its dedication in Montgomery this Sunday but will almost certainly thrust her, against her basic wish that her work speak for itself, into the public eye once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First She Looks Inward: MAYA LIN | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...ways that he couldn't have fully imagined, Edward Ashworth found the $ right person to design the Civil Rights memorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First She Looks Inward: MAYA LIN | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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