Word: civilizations
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...also one of the most unpopular. Volcker, 61, devoted more than three decades to public service; his first appointment after leaving Government in 1987 was as unpaid chairman of the National Commission on the Public Service, a private group trying to improve the lot of the nation's civil servants. Now, as chairman of the New York City investment bank James D. Wolfensohn Inc., Volcker is making big money for the first time in his life. With Administrations changing in Washington, Volcker sat in the study of his Manhattan apartment for a TIME interview with author Lawrence Malkin...
...obviously have some doubts about it, and that's why we have this Commission on the Public Service. The attitude toward federal service has certainly changed. It's a matter of psychology and prestige. A feeling that civil servants get hammered by the political process, beginning with the last couple of Presidents. And after a while, you have enough people swearing at you, and you don't think it's a very promising career. Salaries are of some importance, ((but)) when you're talking about the federal civil service, this process of layering the career people with more and more...
...pick up any newspaper, on any subject. You have a great problem with the space program. You've got problems with AIDS. You've got problems with savings and loans. Now they're not all going to be rescued or prevented ((from failing)) just by having a more effective civil service. But to say that you can run the Government without any continuity, without any background, without any expertise, I think, logically is deficient...
...common on America's college campuses. Two decades after the Love Generation traded in its tribal beads for briefcases and business suits, bigotry and prejudice are making a comeback. Underlying this ugly renaissance is a change in the nation's political climate from the idealism that spawned the civil rights movement in the 1960s to the me-first ethic that has flourished in the '80s. Many educators blame recent outbreaks of campus bigotry on the fact that today's students are largely ignorant about past struggles for racial, sexual and economic equality. "We failed to help our children learn...
...under attack. "They have been raised in an era when equal opportunity has been questioned," says Albert Camarillo, chairman of a Stanford University committee on minority concerns. "They have heard people ask if we have done too much for minorities." Others blame the Reagan Administration's lax enforcement of civil rights laws for making prejudice socially acceptable. "The Reagan years provided a context that made people feel more comfortable expressing intolerance," says John S. Wilson, assistant director of corporate development at M.I.T...