Word: experimenters
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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...
Somehow, the enormity of the Cambodian tragedy-even leaving aside the grim question of how many or how few actually died in Angka Loeu 's experiment in genocide-has failed to evoke an appropriate response of outrage in the West. To be sure, President Carter has declared Cambodia to...
Though an earlier, similar experiment by an Iowa utility ended abruptly when worries arose over the burning of a corn fungicide, LMU has not met any environmentalist opposition. The corn "burns cleanly and has no detectable emissions," says Edwin McDivitt, 49, manager of utilities for LMU and the driving force...
The quickie sociologist is apt to tell us more of his own problems than of ours. Since Solzhenitsyn's life has been unhappily shaped by hard distinctions and persecuting dogma, he is understandably tempted to overvalue those weapons. He has become his own kind of hard dogmatist. He has...
In Cambridge, restaurants run the gamut in their fare, their atmosphere and, of course, their prices. As in Boston, the best strategy is to experiment--the reps of Harvard Square restaurants are often deceiving. (Some Cambridge folk, for example, still imagine that Ferdinand's offers a quiet, intimate atmosphere.)