Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there. By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone...
...took more than a year for word of the My Lai massacre to reach Washington. Last week the Army punished two of the men it considered responsible for that delay. Major General Samuel W. Koster, commander of the Americal Division at the time of My Lai, was demoted one grade to Brigadier General. He and his assistant division commander, Brigadier General George H. Young Jr., were stripped of their Distinguished Service Medals and given letters of censure. That, in effect, ended their military careers...
...oddly embarrassing surprise to some of the professional people who approach the Government for a job is discovering how well they will be paid. Federal workers have had ten raises since 1962. Attorneys, chemists and engineers in Civil Service Grade 15 now make from $24,251 to $31,523?figures that were arrived at by averaging the salaries of comparable professionals in the business world. They have job security and pensions as well. State and local government pay scales are lower, but the problems and the jobs can be challenging. For example, business school graduates hired by Los Angeles County...
...twenties, he worked hard at his studies and slowly acquired vast confidence in his ability to do serious scholarly work. According to a colleague from his Harvard Faculty days, Kissinger was once informed as the result of a clerical error that he had received a failing grade. He immediately range up the professor involved and proclaimed, "Tell me. Is this a joke...
ELLIOTT "discovered" Kissinger. He spent long hours with his young prodigy-the two would often read and grade master's theses written by Elliott's graduate students-and provided Kissinger with impetus for his career. With Elliott, Kissinger founded and directed Harvard International Seminar, through which about 40 mid-career people from foreign countries-writers and artists as well as scholars and politicians-visited Harvard for two months of the summer every year. (It was later discovered that several of the foundations financing the Seminar were secret conduits for CIA funds. Kissinger claimed not to have known of CIA support...