Word: governors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Preisser was astounded by the results. Within a few days, 225 Californians had phoned to ask about the jobs. A team of lowans, dubbed "Ray's Raiders" after Republican Governor Robert Ray, flew to San Francisco to interview applicants and selected 70 finalists; most of them have college degrees and many years of experience working in California's prisons. Says Preisser: "We're getting some of their best people, people they've worked hard to train." Next week 15 of the new employees will start their jobs in Iowa. The rest of the openings will be filled later...
...that Preisser decided to advertise in California again, this time for physicians, psychiatrists and other mental health specialists. There were a dozen applicants, and six of them are expected to be hired shortly. Will there be more raids on California? "Why not?" says David Oman an assistant to the Governor. Why not indeed...
There are two compelling reasons why volunteer work is, as California Governor Jerry Brown has said, "a necessity for a civilized society." First, as is becoming increasingly clear, there is and ought to be a finite limit to the ser vices that government can provide. California's Proposition 13 has proved that taxpayers are willing to cut services even cruelly and self-destructively to reduce their tax loads. If many necessary services are to be provided, volunteers must do the work-particularly in child care centers, nursing homes, libraries and alcohol abuse programs. One of the most persuasive practical...
...legend with a mammoth parade. At the head of the procession was Brigham Young's latest successor, Spencer Woolley Kimball, 83, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Behind him were brass bands, floats, fiddlers, and such lesser dignitaries as Scott M. Matheson, the Governor of Utah...
...dollar. Economist Robert Triffin, a U.S. monetary expert who has long championed a European currency, believes that it would help rather than hurt the dollar's stability in the long run. The final form of the common European money system remains uncertain, but, said Federal Reserve Board Governor Henry Wallich, "something will emerge because there is a big push behind it, and a lot of political capital has been invested...