Word: constant
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Much of the blame for bureaucratic slackness rests with the public-service unions whose rigid rules impair productivity. It takes yards of red tape and constant bickering to shift anyone to another department or category. Only by sweetening fringe benefits three years ago could the city persuade the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association to allow more men to be put on the streets during the high-crime shift from 4 p.m. to midnight...
...seems incredible," says Fodor's Guide to the Sinai Peninsula, "but there has been a constant flow of traffic across this corner of hell since time immemorial." Last week the U.S. Congress passed a joint resolution that will allow some 200 American technicians to become the latest pilgrims to the Sinai. The U.S. technicians will act as "custodians" at two multimillion-dollar surveillance sites along the Giddi Pass. They will also man two or three new watch stations in the area. Their life will not be easy, as TIME'S Jerusalem bureau chief Donald Neff discovered when...
...SYSTEM could also achieve attractive results in the much neglected area of departmental reform. Imagine housing History majors in the eastern end of Canaday Hall where they could maintain constant pressure on senior faculty in the department. Had this been done before, the widely detested departmental requirements in History might have fallen years ago as the Bastille did centuries before; but the department's isolation in an obscure corner of the Yard has made reform as unlikely as spontaneous and surprise attack by Parisian mobs on Versailles...
Obscenities do not have the same power among college students as they have in ordinary life. Constant use, frequently in playful and affectionate circumstances, have emasculated them of any dark, taboo properties they might once have had. Pauline Kael has observed that college students really cannot conceive of the vicious injury inflicted when they as demonstrators taunt policemen and National Guardsmen with the casual obscenities of the collegiate vocabulary. They do not realize that for most people these obscenities are still functional weapons...
Although Congressional appropriations to the loan program have remained constant over the past two years, the slight delinquency increase has aroused concern in Congress about the loan collection policies, Lloyd Johnson, an education program specialist said...