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...airline industry is infamous for frequent firings and executive parachutists. But not Delta. Garrett, who joined the company about 35 years ago as a reservations clerk, is a prime example of Delta's forward-looking personnel policy, which is now paying big dividends. Company morale is high and turnover low because layoffs are nonexistent and promotions are almost always made from within...
...Internal Revenue Service office in San Diego to arrange payment for their remaining $1,619 in back taxes. When the two businessmen were informed that they had just ten days to pay, an angry Jones demanded to know why they had not been told of that earlier. The IRS clerk replied calmly: "Probably incompetence around here. It sounds like a lot of red tape, but that's the Government...
...point, Feloni threatened to charge the protesters with contempt of court after they giggled at a court clerk who repeatedly mispronounced their names...
...that homosexuals are especially susceptible to blackmail, many intelligence experts disagree. Says Cord Meyer, former CIA assistant deputy director for operations: "The Soviets specialize in homosexual cases. They assign KGB agents who are homosexuals themselves to entrap our agents." Another U.S. expert cites the case of a homosexual British clerk with the naval attaché's office in Moscow in the mid '50s, William Vassall, who passed Admiralty secrets to the Soviets...
...post-office clerk estimated that 25 men had registered by midday...