Word: gs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this year than in the past. The Crimson are currently 1-2, and uncharacteristically bad start which is due to the uncharacteristically high number of freshmen on the squad. It has taken the seven yardlings a couple of games (7-2 loss at Dartmouth, 6-5 overtime 1 gs at RPI) to get their ECAC acts together...
Dale Peterson, a spokesman for the CIA, said yesterday the CIA has nominated two members with GS 18 rank--"about the highest rank there is below appointed ones" for participation in the program. He said the Kennedy School contacted the CIA late last year to ask them their views on the program, but he said the CIA had no part in running the program...
...they are so enmeshed in red tape that they cannot manage any more," says Jule Sugarman, vice chairman of the Civil Service Commission. Aside from directing an employee to the nearest coffeepot, there is little that a supervisor can do without encountering some cumbersome regulation. The 18 General Schedule (GS) grades of the civil service are largely insulated from outside pressure. An employee gets automatic pay increases just by remaining on the job. Additional raises are supposed to be based on merit; if so, the Federal Government is extraordinarily meritorious. In 1977 only 600 people were denied a merit raise...
...special seat that tilts back 30°, like a barber's chair, to ease the punishing pull of gravity in sharp turns and loops. As a result, says Rider: "you are as comfortable in a 7.5-G turn in the F-16 as you were at about 5 Gs in the F-4 Phantom...
...force exerted on passengers speeding around a 90-ft.-high loop reaches more than 3 Gs-enough to make a test pilot blanch. Since the big loops are generally on a track that deadends, riders have to repeat the entire process backward to return to the loading ramp. Traveling backward is foreign to people in a straightforward world, and there is considerable disorientation in whipping through a loop at high speed in reverse. The most hardened roller-coaster freak can climb out of a giant loop with wobbly knees and churning stomach...