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These efforts should pave the way to a smoother rapport between the parties, which is key to setting the right tone for future talks. The upcoming contract negotiations are bound to address a number of strong points of contention, from job reclassification to pay scales, and it is unlikely that these pre-negotiation efforts will settle the differences between workers and the administration on these controversial issues...
...Salaries are of some importance, ((but)) when you're talking about the federal civil service, this process of layering the career people with more and more political people has probably reached the point where it is quite important in discouraging somebody who someday wants to have a really responsible job: Why should I go into the civil service when I know I'm going to be truncated at a pretty low level...
...this opportunity to go out and do it in the interest of entrepreneurship and a bright new financial world. But I think we've lost a little sense of balance. Hey, look at the Pentagon, which spends $300 billion a year. Are they doing a good job? And they're up against all these very sophisticated, aggressive business people. Are the people making those decisions getting the best professional advice? Why do we seem to make so many mistakes on procurement...
...retired Admiral James Watkins, 60, an expert on nuclear power, former Chief of Naval Operations and once a long-shot prospect to become father-in-law of Britain's Prince Charles (Watkins' daughter Laura Jo had a romance with the Prince before marrying an American actor). Watkins' last Government job was as head of Ronald Reagan's AIDS commission; he showed a gift for drawing agreement from people with very diverse views by coaxing a surprisingly compassionate report out of a sometimes quarrelsome group. Watkins' flexibility will be sorely tested in his new job. His biggest task will...
...said the presidency is an easy job--especially not Jimmy Carter, Reagan's predecessor and the prophet of malaise. After Carter, who immersed himself so thoroughly in government minutiae that he was even monitoring the White House tennis court schedule, anyone could have made the presidency look simple. Reagan made it look too simple. Nine to five, with an hour for lunch. Three weeks off for major holidays...